At some point on Wednesday or Thursday I managed to get something in my eye. It irritated through Thursday, and resisted all efforts to wash it out. It then kept me awake all Thursday night (literally – I finally passed out at 6:30 am)
I phoned my GP and they said go to A&E at the hospital , being better equiped. The nurse there attempted to swab it off with a cotton bud, but it is properly stuck to my eyeball. So he then put anasthetic in my eye (it stung), and tried to get it with a surgical needle (yes pointy metal in my eye!) This didn’t work. Because it was just off the cornea (it’s where the iris meets the white) he couldn’t be too adventurous, as it was near lots of blood vessels. It had already bled a tiny bit, but to remove it could cause a lot of bleeding (yes, from the eyeball), and the emergency dept isn’t set up for that.
So I have a prescription for some gel which will soften the ‘skin’, and an appointment for 11am tomorrow (Saturday) at the eye clinic. I hope that it works!
Eye clinic update…
It turns out that most of what I have on my eye is an inflamation of degeneration of the membrane that covers the eye. Apparently as you get older this membrane gets damaged by exposure to light and air. The thinnest bit runs across the middle, and you get spots on it where it has degenerated. One of these spots has become inflammed. i do have something on the eye, buy he can treat this until the inflammation has gone, so I have steroid eye drops.
As far as I’m concerned this is just more proof against creationism/intelligent design – what idiot would design the eye to be allegic to light!