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Yes, today, March 15th, the day of Caesar's Assassination, is the Ides Of March.
It's also, coincidently, the day I get the first needle in my own eye.
I have a macular edema in the back of my right eye (swelling). And the treatment for it is to get a shot into my eye. Yes, I'm serious. I have to do it every month....well for a few months until we do something else (more on that in a few months).
As horrid as it sounds, it's not as bad as I thought it would be. Oh, it wasn't pleasant, but I was pleasantly surprised at how bad it simply wasn't.
Anyway, here's some photos of my eye afterwards. Again, it looks much worse than it feels.
So, roughly, once I'm in the chair, they put some numbing drops in my eye. And then, after a bit, Kristen said, "I have some numbing solution as well, and I'll put that in using a q-tip." And I thought, GREAT! But she did, and she told me to close my eye and keep it closed...while the q-tip was laying on my eyeball.
Again, it sounds and looks much, MUCH worse than it felt. I couldn't actually feel anything, except something between my eyelids.
Then we took the q-tip out, put more drops in, kept the eye closed. Then the doctor came in. I honestly don't remember a lot of specifics, other than him saying over and over, and me repeating, "Look up and left, up and left". He put something in to keep my lids apart, I felt nothing, he put some drops in, he said I'll feel some pressure, and I did feel a lil bit, and then more drops, and he took the thing out to keep the lids open, put something else in, and said we were done.
Not pleasant, but not as bad as I feared. Thank God, cause I'm gonna be getting a lot more of them.
POLT
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