The Eye - Very Anxious Moments

We were in Terengganu over the last week. I had my regular commitment to attend to at my former place of work. As usual Ram followed me and this trip we were quite free as Najla was not with us. She had followed the other grandparents and is apparently enjoying it very much being doted upon there. Furthermore she has her cousin, a little older than her, to play with. Sita was supposed to fetch her back yesterday but she wanted to continue for another week. So it would be another week of quiet and easy life for us. But no, it was not to be. An emergency cropped up and we had to take urgent steps to address it. It is the eye again, causing apprehensions and worries.

The winds were blowing furiously and unabated in Terengganu on the days we were there. It is the monsoon season and it is normal for the weather to remain adverse for days on end. The two different hotels we stayed in were both by the beach. Ram started having irritations in her ‘borrowed eye’. That’s the right eye, with a cornea transplant done several years ago and was continually giving problems until January this year when a corrective surgery put things right, and for the whole year, until now, she was ok. One morning, in the hotel in Terengganu, she woke up with pain around the eye and on the right side of her head. The right eye was red and swollen. The incident of December 24th 2004, of infection of the eye, came flooding into my mind (read my blog posted on Sunday January 23rd 2005 of this incident). I prayed to the Almighty for protection and guidance, for avoidance of a repeat of the December 2004 incident. I was worried that perhaps due to the continual strong winds, and while Ram was out in the open (although she spent most times indoors) some dust may have got into the eye. We rushed back to KL and on the way made calls for an emergency appointment to see the eye specialist at the Tun Hussein Onn Eye Hospital.

We arrived at the hospital on time for the appointment. The doctor took a look at the eye and the cornea and found that one of the stitching on the cornea had snapped. According to the doctor it is quite normal for the stitching to give way after some time!! The two pointed edges of the stitch that snapped were rubbing against her eyelid causing the irritation, swelling and the red eye. Phew……. what a relief it was for Ram and for me too. The doctor removed the snapped stitch and prescribed some eye drops for the eye. The swellings have subsided now and the redness is slowly disappearing. Ram is slowly getting back to her normal routines, with vision on the eye ok as normal. We thank the Almighty for his guidance and protection.

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