my folks have gone to korea and it is home alone! while i thot finally i can try to be home late without any qualms, i was only half right. while the whole week was spent uneventfully, though it should have been given the absence of my parents, i spent my days trying to finish my reports and going for swimming with kaiyuan. on thurs, i finally got to go out with the BOA party for dinner and movie subsequently.
this is the pic that i deliberately took to document my one week old gucci sunglasses. it was taken b4 the dinner and xiong ge had his shang fang bao jian which he kindly stewarded for andrew i think. den we finally got to eat at the Phin's steak house which we'd passed by countless times for our ah chew's supper meetings. the doneness of the meat was up to my expectations and you could almost taste the medium-rare meat like the cow was just grazing the New Zealand pastures 5 min ago. i'm not really good at discerning freshness. but if you were to ask me, i'd say this is it. and the wild mushroom sauce was a pleasant surprise. its thick yellowish graving doesn't look all too flattering but a touch of it on your tastebuds and it'd bring you back to Fangorn (the hometown of Treebeard just at the backyard of Saruman's tower aka Isengard in LOTR. you can really TASTE mushrooms and it really doesn't taste like it's been processed at all. if they did, they really preserved the original flavour really well.
after huimin nice pang seh, huiling, yuntheng, siong-ge, andrew and i went for the harry potter, the haLf blood prince movie. perhaps being forewarned more than enough times of the sleep-inducing potency of the show (must be one of the spells...), i tried to keep my ears open for the storylines instead of anticipating any actions. and perhaps that was the reason which caused me to have an extreme low threshold to any actions-cum-suspense-cum-frightful scenes.
at the scene where bumbledor (forgive me if the spelling is wrong) brought frodo, oh erm... harry (dun you think he looks a little like frodo?) to collect fordomor's spirit item thingy inside this wrong-looking cave, when bumbledor just finished drinking the moquitoe larvae infested drink, i was compelled to place my hands close to my face as a promising scary scene is impending. then when those Smeagol-looking things came and grasped harry, i poked my finger into my right eye and cut my cornea. the immediate feeling was that of an everted eyelid. then the next thing i knew was that i was lacrimating non-stop. serious. it was so much that i felt dehydrated when i reached home. these happened on thurs. i had to act like a kung-fu master on the cab ride home and even direct the taxi-driver which route to take with my eyes closed most of the time. he would have missed the expressway exit had i not opend my eyes in time! scary...
then the next day, which was fri, i decided to skip dear Zhu's lesson and went in late when she just finished her lecture. wanted to return some notes to ailing and xt thought i purposely went back to let everybody see my eyes... erm, and that's the last thing i would have wanted to do actually. haha!
den i went to spoc and iryn happened to to be the one to be available at that point in time and checked my eyes. she took less than a minute on the SLE and decided that she dun want to seen me anymore but to go straight to A&E. honestly man, i'd have been devastateded to hear her say this under normal circumstances... but her sense of urgency really woke me up from my false optimism that only my eyelids were affected. so i called sihui to ask if she could be my eyes and bring me to hospital, since we were supposed to go oob to collect our cert at 4pm. i was surprised when the other gals turned up at mac where i was waiting for sihui. and xt even offered to drive me der. i was so relieved and really appreciated her doing so. cld really save me the trouble of getting a cab!
when i reached alexandra hospital, i actually wanted to take a pic of myself on the wheelchair. but decided it was too morbid so... maybe not. then anna yeo called me and wanted to accompany me to the eye clinic if the MO at the A&E decided it was serious enough for me to go and see the ophthal. i was really grateful that she got to know of my condition and called me. it's great having someone to accompany me (since sihui and xt had to go back for prac) and not blind my way around, and even better if that someone is an experienced optom with loads of connections in the eye clinic.
after a round of diagnosis by dr sachins, a cornea expert, and ms anna yeo, they decided that it's a sterile corneal abrasion that din hit the stroma. but they weren't sure if the BM were affected. if it was, it could cause recurrent epithelial erosion and the doc would have to do puncturing to deliberate scars to protect my cornea. this could only be done of the injury was off axis. if it's along the visual axis, it would be really tricky. after their descrition of my cornea, this is the one pic i found closest to their desrictions: a patch of staining paracentral to the corneal.
i had wanted to post a pic of my own eyes on the blog and realised better not... apart from the sapphire iris and high nose bridge, this is exactly wad i see in the mirror (ok... kamen... pls stop thinking about other things...): hyperemic conjunctiva, ipsilateral ptosis, and mild lid edema on the right eye.
and this is exactly wad i see when i compare my right eye (the problematic one)and left eye (the good one). in fact, my right eye is a little worse than that shown on the left. hope God will heal me and teach me how to appreciate good vision with 2 eyes... i want my stereopsis back!!!
