For The Ugliness that Recur

I've been feeling some irritation on my right eye for the past few days. Last night I finally find there's pain on the eye. I freaked out and called mum. I had some history of inflammation of the eyelids I suppose. There's once about 3 years ago when mum just get me to the specialist and he did a pressure relief on the spot. The eye gets swollen and redish for the next one week. Horrible experience I'd say.

I was planning to go to the A&E then. Who knows what might it be? We seriously didn't look into the clinical medicine textbook until like, uh, 10 minutes ago. So, us being pre-clinicals and watching too much House.M.D, differential diagnosis everyone?

CH: Diabetic retinopathy! OMG! I didn't know you're a DM!

KW: Must be "(some thingy in Chinese)". Wait let me check in the electronic dictionary... Glaucoma! High intraoccular pressure right?

KK: I'm thinking of benign tumor. Reccurent. Something underneath that lids. Go request for a CT scan or something.

YL: Occular toxoplasmosis! Bwahahahahaha...

Me: Could it be radiation? Say... the ones from the laptop screen? But mum said it's dirt or something underneath the lids that causes the inflammation wor whenever the body gets heaty, according to my past history lar.

KK: Tumor... Neoplasia....

CH: No lar... periocular edema. See, so swollen already.

KW: Go A&E now.

Anyway, I didn't go to the A&E last night. Went to bed and woke up this morning with a bigger swelling. The doctor at the students' clinic prescribed me some anti-swelling tablets and pain killer, as well as antibiotics plus some lozenges since I've got acute pharyngitis as well. I'm not really sure if the antibiotics is for the eye or the throat, since sore throat are like, 80% viral. And assuming it's viral, there's no use of antibiotics anyway. But again, there's still a slight chance it might be bacterial.

I did look it up the textbook when I got back from the clinic just now, and this is what I found. Excerpt from the text "Blepharitis. This is inflammation of the lid margins. Inflammation may involve....bla bla bla.... blockade of meibomian glands leading to chalazia.... bla bla bla... treatment includes lid toilet and topical antibiotics such as chloramphenicol or fucidic acid... bla bla bla... some patients are left with a lump once the acute inflammatory phase of the chalazion has subsided. Most of them find the lump cosmetically unacceptable and require incision and curettage." What the??? As far as I'm concern, I didn't get any topical antibiotics, and I have no idea what lid toilet is. I wasn't even given lid balm! And I had to resolve to patching the eye with warm water on my own instead.

Gosh I so need the pirates' single-eye mask.