And so the truck is packed up for the trip back south, the wife and cat are dead and I’m alone with a left eye with a sudden case of LOTS of floaters in left eye. A trip to the local ER gets me an inspection by a ‘beginner’ doc, who reads the digital tonometer upside down (91 instead of 16) and declares me nearly blind, all the while ignoring my protests until a 22 y/o nurse shows him how to operate the device. By this time, he’s touched everything except the mop-pail with gloveless fingers and so by now, the eye is a red, ripe waterfall tomato of tears and infection, he sending me home with a tube of the equivalent of Visine and me desperately making a date with my Ophtholamagist two days later, who treated me kindly, sent me on my way with proper meds and a hand-written complaint against ‘the kid doctor’ that gotten me in such a condition. I later sent him a letter, properly chastising him reminding him of his Oath and the hope that he had ‘learned something’ from our encounter. His own mother would have been proud of him by my phrasing and ‘big words’ but unless she was an MD, she would have beaten him soundly roundabouts the head and shoulders and for a good sound reason.
Templo S.U.D. over 6 years ago
A twitchy eye instead of winking eye is serious business for a doctor to look into.
Plods with ...™ over 6 years ago
Hate those. I swat at them because I think they’re gnats.
Phred Premium Member over 6 years ago
Don’t forget the blurry vision.
nyssawho13 over 6 years ago
Nah… I have an 80-something man I work with and he says, If I ever stop noticing a pretty woman, I’ll be dead!
rare appearance over 6 years ago
Pluggers eyes still roam but us married ones keep everything else to ourselves
MichaelSkaggs over 6 years ago
Speak for yourself!
MichaelSkaggs over 6 years ago
OK. I have to explain. The day my eyes don’t roam is the day life is no longer good.
unca jim over 6 years ago
And so the truck is packed up for the trip back south, the wife and cat are dead and I’m alone with a left eye with a sudden case of LOTS of floaters in left eye. A trip to the local ER gets me an inspection by a ‘beginner’ doc, who reads the digital tonometer upside down (91 instead of 16) and declares me nearly blind, all the while ignoring my protests until a 22 y/o nurse shows him how to operate the device. By this time, he’s touched everything except the mop-pail with gloveless fingers and so by now, the eye is a red, ripe waterfall tomato of tears and infection, he sending me home with a tube of the equivalent of Visine and me desperately making a date with my Ophtholamagist two days later, who treated me kindly, sent me on my way with proper meds and a hand-written complaint against ‘the kid doctor’ that gotten me in such a condition. I later sent him a letter, properly chastising him reminding him of his Oath and the hope that he had ‘learned something’ from our encounter. His own mother would have been proud of him by my phrasing and ‘big words’ but unless she was an MD, she would have beaten him soundly roundabouts the head and shoulders and for a good sound reason.
gopher gofer over 6 years ago
flatulence can be such a bother…