March 9, 2007
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I took the day off today because I’m over accrued on my time-off hours at work.
So I took the opportunity to go see my optometrist, who’s a good friend from high school. Wow, he is so good at what he does. I never felt like optometrists were real doctors until I saw him. He took so much time to explain things to me. I’m not an easy patient b/c of my dry eye problems… something about some excavation (?)
He said he noticed the oil glands on my eyelids are all plugged up. He said, “You know how like when you see a pimple you really want to squeeze it? That’s what I feel like right now.” So he puts some drops in my eye:
J: Uh, what was that? It kinda stings.
E: Just some anesthesia.
J: For what?! What are you going to do?
E: I’m going to unplug the oil glands. It’ll just hurt a little. Okay, hold onto these bars.
I felt like a prisoner staring out a prison cell.
So he takes this sharp instrument from a drawer
and start to scrape and press along the rim of my eyelids! The next few minutes felt like hours. I felt like I was sitting in a torture chair. But I know it’s for my own good. Hopefully they’ll feel better the next few days. (He doesn’t do this for his regular patients.)
On the way home, I dropped by Trader Joe’s. I love that store. I’m happy.. I’m watching Days of Our Lives and eating chocolate covered espresso beans.
Comments (13)
i have dry eyes, too. but that’s probably mostly because of my contacts. wow, he scraped your eyelids? i have never heard of that before! how weird. tell us if it works, please!
last time i went to an eye doctor, he was pretty cool, too, explaining stuff to me. i felt weird because it feel really obvious that this guy was my age or younger. i had never been to a eye doc that was young before.
i have oil-builtup in my lids too but my optometrist just told me to put hot compress on my lids every night to release the builtup. i didn’t know they were “popable”! sounds like a form of chinese torture!
oo yummy! my roommate has the same ones from trader joe’s!
see!! i told you! your tear ducts are all plugged up! i wonder if ma’s is too. feel better!
yikes!!! that sounds horrible!!
my friend has this problem with her eyes too, OFTEN…please tell me if it works…i’ll recommend her to get that treatment too if there’s a doctor willing… =) thanks for being so informative, if you need info on canker sores, you can visit my site. haha
Did you see Eddie? If yes, where is his office now is it hard to get there?
yikes! i’ve never heard that before.
Wow! What a painful way to spend a day off! But yay for Trader Joe’s… that place always makes me really happy too.
I always have to restrain myself from buying everything there at one time!
Yeah, keep us up to date on the eyelids thing; that sounds awful, but great if it works
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ouuuch O_O!
Hey, I have dry eyes too! Tell me if it works or not!
OUCH! that sounds painful.