Red Eye...

I'm not refering to the thriller 'Red Eye' currently showing at the cinemas, but the red sore eyes that i'm suffering now... It's actually sore eye, without the 's' that began with my left eye... But i think has now passed on to infect my right eye too, showing visible signs of redness...

I've got this disease from my bunk mate in camp... He booked in on monday nite with both eyes sore... terribly red and sore... He said he would go see the MO (Medical Officer, a doctor in the army language), the following day... He was given medical leave subsequently and went home... Sleeping on the bed to his left, I thought that I was safe and healthy enough to not have caught the disease immediately... But on wednesday night, my left eye began to produce lots of 'eye shit' and my left eye vision began to get blur because of that... A check with my fellow bunk mate, which slept on the bed next to my left, said that that was the inital symptoms... Both his eyes were red and swollen, and he had the symptoms as i did earlier in the day... That's it!!! I soon began to realise I had got infected, as my eyes began to produce more eye shit and became red around the retina... I had difficulty getting a good nite sleep that nite... woke up a few times to wipe off the fluids that kept flowing from my eye... The next morning, I had difficulty opening up my left eye, as the fluid that had flowed out from my eye hardened and cause my eyelids to be glue-ed together... And my eye was sore with redness and painful to keep it open...

I went to the medical centre in camp to see the MO... Waited for 45 minutes for the consultaion and 2 hours 15 mins for the medication and medical slip... Can you imagine the pain and emotional torture that I went through? Waiting in pain and wasting time for me to get healed?? The medication prescribed was not what I wanted to wait for... It was the medical slip... The medical slip that enables me to have medical leave and book out of camp, to get better treatment and medicine from my own family doctor... A check with the medic there said that the doctors had gone for a meeting, therefore there was no one to sign the medical slip... Then why would the doctors want to hold a meeting during the morning peak hours when the medical centre had juz opened and flooded with patients? It caused a jam in the service, letting us patients wait in pain when when we are already suffering from some illness... It juz shows how inefficient they are...

I finally reached home at noon, and went to see my family doctor in the afternoon... I didn't bring the medicine that the MO had prescribed, coz I noe I wouldn't take it anyway... Reason being is because the medicines that they prescribed are generally milder, and would take a longer time to recover... My friendly family doctor looked at my eye and says it's quite sore, and continued to ask me what had the MO prescribed... I told him he gave me 2 bottles of eye drops, one called sodium chloride and the other i'm not sure... He then drew an eye drop bottle shape and asked me is it something like this and i said yes...

And then he said, "I hope he didn't give you this", pointing to a blue and white box on his table...

I took a closer look and see what medicine he was refering to......... It was the box that contain the 'blue pill'... The box says... 'Viagra'.........

I quickly said: "NO, no... Definitely not this!!!" I didn't noe my doctor can be so cheeky and humourous...

The MO couldn't have prescribed the viagra, as it was not a place to consume the medicine, what with an almost 100% male population in camp... Why would we need it for?? Not unless for some underground indecent activity between 2 sexually deprived and sexually unachieveable males... Secondly, my bao bei would tell you that I definitely dun need that at the moment, and for some 20 to 30 years in time, as i can still live up to the occassion...

So here I am, confined and isolated in my room, typing this entry... I juz hope that I will recover fast and thus able to go watch a movie with my bao bei this weekend... I miss you bao bei...