Drama King Teejay's CORNER

A Couple of months ago I had traveled for a maintenance job outside Rivers state. I was cracking the ground when some particles of stones got into one of my eyes(the right one). I should have taken safety precaution in the first instance by putting on eye shade.

Immediately, I washed my eyes with clean water and continued with the work but carefully since there's no eye shade to put on.

A week later, my right eye turned very red and heavy. At a point, I became so afraid if I have contacted disease cos I had forgotten about the stone particles that got into my right eye. I went online to check possible cause of red eyes.

 Immediately I returned from travel, I went for a test. Ran different tests but found nothing wrong. I was recommended to get a particular eye drop for it (vaccine eye drop). I went to the pharmacy and was told it cost 7,500. 

There were other brands for 2,000 and so on. I called my doctor to inform him. Took a picture of my eyes and forwarded to him. On seeing how severe it was, he said I shouldn't apply anything on it yet but visit an eye clinic as quick as possible to ascertain the cause of it.

As instructed, I visited, got a registration card and then ran an eye test. The doctor used a microscope and a torch to flash inside my right eye and said, there are tiny objects inside the eye. Removing it will cost five thousand naira.

She continued, after removal, I will pay twenty five thousand naira (25,000) to treat it for it to heal. That the object after removal, will leave a hole inside the eye. So it need to be treated. During the treatment, my right eye will be covered with bandage. I thanked her and left.

I called my Doctor and informed him. He said I should go to another clinic and if I get the same report, then I should go back to the first. So I did. The second test didn't reveal any object in my eyes. Probably, something entered and had gone out. The doctor only applied eye drop that neutralized the pains I was having.

After that, I left. I also paid for card registration as well. She said I should return in four days time if the pains and reddish eye continues.
Two days afterward, the pains reduced as I woke up from sleep unlike before. On the third day, someone said my eye is getting bright. In less than a week, my right eye cleared off and shone bright like the other. No more pains.

So I called my doctor and informed him about it. I asked him why did the first clinic I went said all that, he smiled and said, how do I expect doctors to make money and pay bills? Though he faulted those who magnify things to make patients frightened and pay heavily.

I think I later understood why he said I should visit another clinic. Please always make sure that you  run a second test at a different hospital to ascertain a report.