Dont play play with your eyes

 Just sharing.

I admitted myself at A&E this Wed.  Wonder why?

It was hot Wed afternoon. Suddenly I felt that my right eye had sort-of a film in front of it. I quickly went to the mirror to assess.

Looks normal, eye ball is still white, no sign of cataract, not flashes looking at all directions.  Hardly floaters when I close my eyes.

The effect was like someone's eye sight just woke up in the morning.

My intuitive was quickly to buy an Eye-Mo moist eye-drop.  It sorts of help a little.

Why I then have to admit to A&E? What is the outcome? 

Want to try guessing?

~~~~~~

For quick knowledge sharing

Two severe degradations of the eyes are:

Glaucoma & Retina tear or detachment.  For others, you can search online.  Should these severity happen, immediate medical attention is important; not even to wait for another day.

Retinal detachment itself is painless. But warning signs almost always appear before it occurs or has advanced, such as:

-sudden appearance of many floaters — tiny specks that seem to drift through your field of vision

-Flashes of light in one or both eyes, Blurred vision, Gradually reduced side (peripheral) vision, a curtain-like shadow over your field of vision.

Glaucoma have few or no symptoms until their optic-nerves/eyesight is damaged, likely due to eye high pressure build up. For layman, you may 

-lose peripheral or halo-like image vision at first. You might not notice this until there is significant optic nerve damage.

-more severe, get sudden, severe eye pain with nausea and vomiting, headache, watery eyes, blurred vision, and halos around bright lights.

~~~~~


Diagnosis: Dry eyes

After applying prescribed eye-drops, ok now.

Why I self-admit to A&E?

I called National Eye Centre (NEC).  They do not accept walk-in as I didn't have any record with them.   

The only way, as advised, is to go A&E first and then get Eye appointment.

Although I have recovered, my eye appointment with NEC will be on next Wed, though I can make much appointment earlier.


Lesson learnt

1. Never play play with your eyes; it's delicate.

2. Good to keep our eyes moist, esp. during hot days.

3. Better to keep a record with NEC, just in case of emergency.  Better still, keep an open date to eye-check or include annual eye-check appointment.

4. Avoid rubbing hard on your eyes.

5. Carry eye-drop with you.  Apply eye-drop.  Those single tube disposal type to prevent contamination.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Consideration for MY property Purchase

Consideration for MY property Purchase 1.  Avoid mixed devt; it is difficult to demarcate Hotel, Residential & Mall for Strata Title issue.  Best choice is JB (& Melaka) as more food choices & rentals. (KL & Penang are too far for me to travel, although it's property may have good return value. Need MM2H or else need to return home monthly to renew Visa extension.) 2. Before Strata Title issue, Unit has to pay State Consent every 2-year @RM5k (recently raised from RM3k) to keep unit ownership interim.  When purchasing, bargain for one time payment for State Consent; no need renewal. But easily than said, Developer may not warrant it after 3-year Latent Defect Period (LDP). Not even through legal statements, unless it's first State Consent Certificate does not have expiry date.   Earlier year, new property buy may have such privileges such as Deferred Interest Bearing Scheme (DIBS) loan absorption by developer during construction phrase; so one doesn't
Read more

Can retire with $1k monthly? got bluff me?

  Someone who is my cohort just retired last year.  He candidly shared that his average monthly expenses is less than $1000. Some background that I gathered: 1.  Married with a working adult child. 2.  Stay in condo; ever spinned n profited from few property sales. 3.  Still need to support aged parent with 4 siblings. 4. No car. So I did some quick calculation to see sure or not to retire with $1k monthly expenses. Think his $1k p.m. is thin retirement. Utility & PS, water : $100 p.m. Telco: $20 p.m.  MCST: $200 p.m. (where got so low maintenance?) Medishieldlife: $800 / 12= $66 p.m. (can pay by CPF-MA) H&S Shield Plan: $1200 / 12 = $100 p.m. (excluded $680 deducted from MA) Support his parents: $2000/5 = $400. Basic fixed monthly overhead:  100+20+200+100 + 400 = $820 With just $1000 p.m., net available for meal = $1000 - $820 = $180 p.m. (or $6 per day) Not forgetting that he just retired, he need to fully pay his last year personal income tax. ------ In summary, my assessme
Read more

Buying insurance for Children

During my time as first-time parent, we are blur blur general direction in investment and protection.  That was in the last 90s then. We bought whole life insurance (dont know and dont care about ilp or tradition); at that time, no one talked much about Term insurance.  No such things as TermLife. And... my monthly pay was less than $2,000. And CPF did  not allow topup to child SA.  I remembered that this was introduced in 2013 under a "Others" category.   I quickly made my first $10k topup to their CPF SA, each to my child; over n over the next decade.  At that time, one kid had yet even had her nric; hence I wouldn't check if the cheque topup into the CPF SA was really deposited.    Very chuang. Do make your own decision, I am no insurance agent. If I were you, I would do this: Pt1: Your child has to be covered under both parents' Company Dependents Health Benefits.  First basic protection from Day 1 till their age 21.  (Caveat: Buy when no medical loading. Touchwoo
Read more