OBVIOUSLY I WAS GONE ON THE MEDS..

please ignore previous post. writer is and will be forever apologetic. please also note that said post has been deleted and shall never see light of day again. it was the drugs that made her do it.

writer was down with flu for better part of the week (i.e. antibiotics and lots and lots of panadol)and on tuesday (after 2 months of putting it off) realised her right eye was blur. she went to 3 different optamologists and this is her story:

tuesday: went to U.H. parked at level 4A. Had to walk down 2 levels to the elevator whereby one could get banged down by cars coming up ramp. there was no staircase. everyone had to do that walk up and down those ramps. (strike 1). reached elevator. had to take elevator to level 2A. From level 2A, one has to walk through the trauma unit, the onkologi unit (we'll go with b.m spelling here shall we,just to make it alittle more interesting?) and the burn unit..(strike 2)...to get to another elevator at level 2. take THAT elevator to the ground floor. at the ground floor, look for delifrance and next to it will be the oftomologi dept. (i.e. optomology dept...how the hell did they get in an "f" in optomology?) naturally the signages were crap and i was thinking if a person was really sick or something, they'd feel even sicker,really..i remember going to do an assignment there 10 years ago and it looked newer than its current status..where the hell is our health budget going?

so, i finally reached the blessed oftomologi department (that "f" seriously bugs me man..) and i have to take a number. to take a number. no, it aint deja vu, thats what ya gotta do - take a fucking number to register, to get another number! (strike 3) so i waited..and waited...and waited...after about an hour and a half, the nurse finally comes out to tell me, "eh, doctor is doing operation lah, you wait ah!" "how long will it take do you think?" "you just waittttt.." "no,i've been waiting for ages, how long?""err..about one hour, like that lah.." (in doctor speak, that means at least another 2 hours..) (strike 4 and i'm out!)

wednesday: decided to go see Lim Eye Specialist in SS2. you only have an hour window of opputunity to go make an appointment and on wednesday it was between 4-5pm.iwas there by 3.45. still had to wait about 45 minutes.go in for eye check then wait another 1/2 hour. then they called my name. to go from the waiting room to wait outside his door.then i finally got called in. he does not look up as i go in. i wait.he does not look up for the next ten minutes to greet or anything.he continues looking at his damn computer which at that point i am ready to pull out of the damn socket and stuff up his arse..along with the poker thats already in there.but i breathe,and i wait. finally he looks up at me then looks at his note card which the nurse summarised my condition on. he immediately asks me "you wear contacts?" "yes" "you can take your contacts and throw them away forever!" (in my brain-"what the..?") "yes, you come and do lasik with me"

at that point im thinking, all doctors are fucking fuckwits but this one really really takes the cake.by the end of the 2 minute consultation, he not only DIDNT manage to tell me what was wrong with my eye but also managed to fit in the words "lasik surgery" about 5 times. he told me my eye was irregular. i was like "huh?whats that?does that mean its scratched?" "no. it's IRREGULARRRRRRR"he condescendingly said. i didnt know whether to laugh or cry. he charged me 150 bucks. i cried.

yesterday: decided enough was bloody enough. went to the big boys. TUN HUSSEIN ONN EYE HOSPITAL. im too tired right now to go into the details but suffice to say that even though i had to wait 8 hours to see the doc, he was wonderful. Dr. Pall Singh. annnnnddd there was this cute male nurse who put me thru this really trippy eye machine that swirled around and had pretty lights..that was quite cool..


trippy eye machine.

turns out my right cornea is as scratched up as a vandalised car. after many years of contact lens usage, the eye gets dry.(dont worry, thats normal,every contact lens wearer knows this)but mine just got dry-ER. hence every little bit of dust that went in or when sleeping with air con ended up scratching my cornea so thats why i was losing my eyesight. so, no contacts indefinitely and no driving for at least 2-3 months..3 eyedrops that taste like shit and a fucking eye patch!!!i look like a bloody extra from the pirates of the carribean..no,actually, not even that cool..its more like Arnold Swarzenegger in his 2nd or 3rd installment of the Terminator...you know, with that weird metal plastic thing...oh woe is me...


im gonna bring eye patches into fashion man, just watch..*grin*

footnote:dont go to the ss2 one.he sucks.big time. and i hate dissing people. but hes really shit. hes like a big fucking bleary eyed chinaman who wants to print money more than he wants to help people.ANNNDDD he has my surname. ughhh..