So on July 11, which is also meichyi's birthday, I went to Jurong Medical Centre (JMC) to check my eyes with carmen, who came to Singapore to celebrate meichyi's birthday with her. She's one of meichyi's friend I really, really like. She's friendly, mature and funny.
Anyway, when she know I'm going alone to check my eyes, she said she can accompany me and we go together. JMC is really near my place but we still reach there later than the time they want me to be there. So I'm supposed to be there at 10.15am but we ended up reaching around 10.25. Is my first time there so when we enter the building we look quite lost but lucky they have really friendly staff/nurse/receptionist, who immediately approach us and ask is it our first time here and where we want to go. So I politely showed her my letter of referral and tell her I'm here for my eyes check up. She told me the directions and I have to queue and wait for my turn to register. Mum told me the whole check up process won't be long since I've made the appointment with them. But NO! The whole check up and to purchase the eye drops took almost 2 and a half hours! ZZzz ...
Before the doc examine my eyes, a nurse called me to check my eye power and test my eye pressure. This is the first time getting the eye pressure test, super irritating can. Remember the device/machine where you have to place your chin on the bowl-like-thingy and you'll see is a road/path and there's a red balloon at the far end? After resist the urge to blink for testing that, the nurse told me now she will test my eye pressure for me. I said okay and she shifted the bowl-like-thingy up higher till I only see a yellow dot blinking, then she told me there will be a gust of wind shooting at your eye try not to blink ok? She will need 3 recordings for each eye. MY GOD! She tested my right eye first and seriously the wind is no joke, is so strong that you will close your eye! Not just blink but close. Because the first wind came so unexpectedly I even jump up a little in shock. After that I really tried to open and stare at the yellow dot which doesn't help because the blinking dot makes me feel like blinking my eye too. So after several tries, I finally got 3 records for my right eye. The left eye is a total nightmare. Can't even open fully after the first gust of wind hit my eye. The nurse is really friendly and kind because I was so nervous since I'm making her work harder for her with all the blinking and tearing (due to dryness I suppose), she even comfort me saying is okay, let's not stress your eye, even she only had 1 recording for my left eye and we even have to stop for awhile because I really can't open my left eye. Anyway, she say both eyes perform well under the pressure test which means all is okay. Lucky!! So after that, we have to wait for my turn to check my eyes by the eye specialist. When it's my turn I went in alone, and carmen waiting for me outside, the doc ask me what's wrong with my eyes so I explained all over again from how I realised I can't see clearly and the amount of time I make my spec and how long I've been wearing contacts and for how long for each day. After that, the nurse off the light and the doc use some lightning and flash it in my eye. He's a really young and kinda good looking doc, too bad, he's quite harsh and impatient. Well anyway, next the nurse came in and say she's gonna put some eye drops in my eyes to dilute my eyes. Don't really understand what dilute my eyes means and why but she say I'm going to get blurry vision for 5-6 hours. Then she starts to put the eye drops in my eyes and she said they will get back to me later and I got shoo-ed out. After those drops i really can't see clearly, can't even see messages on my iphone and when I wipe away the remainder of the drops from my eyes, the tissue turned yellow! That's my first time trying out yellowish eye drops. HAHAHAHAHA. So after waiting for a long while outside, I got called in again and this time the doc used another type of light on my eyes, from far is yellow in color, but when the lights shine into my eye, I saw it in blur color in a scanning motion like from your right end of your eye to the left. Super cool can! So after another series of checks, the doc explained to me that my blur vision is due to my over dehydrated eyes, the left eye worst than my right. He said just like lips when they're dry, they will crack and that's somehow similar to the condition of my eyes, they got so dry that the surface become uneven and when I wear cons my eyes will turn red. So I'll have to wait for them to get fully heal before I can test my eyes power again and make a new specs. So I asked how long will it takes for them to heal, he replied 1 week. Whoa! That's like super fast. LOL. But he had to gave me antibiotics for my left eye, artificial tears for both of my eyes and eye gel for both eyes before I sleep every night. I'll have to go back this Friday again. I guess he need check if my eyes whether they become better or not.
So now I have to remember the time for both the antibiotics and artificial tears because for the antibiotics is for the left eye only and is needed 4 times a day while the artificial tears is for both eyes every 3 hours. Is really troublesome having to put eye drops when I'm working because I always miss the exact time and after that when I talk to customers my eyes look so teary. HAHAHA. But is really very comfortable for my eyes and sometimes my eyes will still feel dry so now I wonder how I previously survive without eye drops and still wear cons.
After leaving JMC, me and carmen went to town to change the size of a top she bought for her uncle the day before. We went cold storage because she wants to buy the golden oreo (Malaysia don't have) back to eat. Then we went back JP to meet meichyi since she just dismissed from school and they're going to meet meichyi's friend for the birthday dinner later.
So that's the end of my day and my off day. :/ I'll update again for my day off yesterday later cause my eyes need to leave the com for a moment. Need plenty of rest. Byyyeeee, see you later, I hope!
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