two days ago, something scary happened. as some might noe, all my housemates went back to spore and i've had the whole house to myself since thurs, and for another week. Before thurs, I'd been working on the computer all day for the programming project and the lab report, and of course when i was free, to watch dvds. so..it wasnt really surprising to me when my eyesight became quite bad..
but on friday, it got really, really bad. I was half blind for most of the day, and my eyes were watering non stop. i couldnt open my eyes properly even at the sight of daylight, my table lamp, my comp screen or even my room's ceiling light. can u imagine..nt even being able to open my eyes and look out of the window. all i could do was pray, pray and pray. that darkness, Lord, only you knew. i was so scared that my vision would be permanently like that, and i was jus worrying about my work, my exams..all that i still had to face..
i felt so so so drowsy and tired, i slept almost the whole day away. basically my day was: wake up, eat breakfast, read 2 pages of analogue notes, konked back into bed, then wake up, eat lunch (good thing i prepared leftovers from dinner last nite), and then get back to sleep again. i basically slept all the way till dinner time, and had to miss going to TGIF for dinner wif the other two triple e households. Well by then i was getting really worried, because i was not even feeling sick or anything! all this was just because of (or i thot was because of) my deteriorating eyesight.
while taking a quick shower after dinner, it suddenly hit me. that it cant be just because i'd been looking at the comp for too long, that i was half blind the whole day. by now i realised my nose was running too..n it suddenly clicked. hayfever! and my mind raced back to when emily was telling us about the symptoms of it. i vaguely remb..itchy nose, watery eyes, etc... all i could think of was..please let it be hayfever...and not something even worse...
with that i rushed down to the new pharmacy booth in sains..when i got to sains, the lights(in a supermarket! nt even a theatre stage) were too glaring that i couldnt open my eyes and walk straight..all i could do was watch out that i dont knock into ppl..i must have been quite a sight..ha..made it to the booth, got some pills n eye drops for hayfever..came back..took the medicine and went to bed at 9. the next day, i was still pretty much drowsy, but by noon, i was much better already.
i cant describe how good it felt to be able to open my eyes wide this morning when i woke up in bed. right now, everything's back to normal again, and i have my antihistamines by my side. hehe.
on hindsight, i realise that this was exactly what i had last year, and last year i had blamed it on lead soldering fumes. well...now when i think about it, i think that was also hayfever. i read on one of the websites that one of the symptoms or results of hayfever was conjunctivitis too..
I've come to realise what a blessing it really is to just be able to have the sense of sight. to be able to see clearly with your eyes open wide..how easily I forget to give thanx for these little seemingly insignificant things in life.
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