The good news is that my eye scratches are improving – but may take several weeks to months to fully heal. According to my eye doctor, I’m enjoying one of the many perks of getting older – excessively dry eyes. The oil ducts at the bottom of my eyes have either quit producing oil or are solidifying and clogging up the ducts. I have extremely dry eyes now, and may have allergies, on top of the scratches.
SO – I have another appointment in two weeks, 4 prescriptions and a bunch of eye ‘stuff’ I need to start using on a regular basis, at least until we get me over my current problem.
- To get the oil ducts hopefully open, I need to heat a gel eye mask and put it on my eyes for 10 minutes twice a day.
- To get the ‘goo’, wax, oil, and other ‘stuff’ out of my eyelashes, I’m to use “Lid Scrub” each night.
- I have a prescription for pills to take twice a day to help the situation, but I’m not sure exactly how it does that.
- I have two kinds of drops – one two times a day (down from 4 times
- I have two ointments, one 3 times a day and 1 at night.
- AND all of these things are now for BOTH eyes.
I need a calendar and a checklist to be sure I’ve done everything!
The doc said he would call the prescriptions in to my pharmacy so I could pick them up when I got the other eye stuff. Sadly, the pharmacy hadn’t received a call yet. I’ll need to call them back later this afternoon to see if they have received and filled the prescriptions, or if I need to call the eye doc’s office back and find out what the problem is.
Enough gritching, though. My pain is gone. A LOT of the irritation is gone. I can see. Keeping things in perspective is something I work on all the time. Things could be so much worse. I’m lucky to have access to good health care and to be able to see someone who made the pain go away.
Will start making my checklist now.
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