A long long hiatus later, Yours Truly is well and truly back. It has been a long break, with just 2 posts in this month...I know I know...Shame on me! But I did have my reasons...Lot has been happening on the work front since I got back to Ban-galore. Work galore! And add to that family stuff, social stuff, travel stuff, health stuff, and some more work stuff- and you have a healthy amount of excuses for not posting in such a long time.
Anyway, today I had an appointment with an opthalmologist. Those eye-people. Now I know many who have this morbid fear of the teeth-people (yeah, dentists! go ahead, get all technical on me!). I do too...but its one degree worse if its the eye. And one degree worse than that if its MY eye. But, I digress...
So I had this (dis)appointment. Long overdue. I had to get my eyes checked and glasses changed since like...*months* back. But I shamelessly avoided it. Till yesterday, when I had some dust particle in my eye and I could no longer turn a blind eye (no puns, seriously!) to the situation. So armed with a cellphone to quell my anxieties, off I marched for my appointment. I was duly received at the reception (I don't believe I can ever associate that word with weddings anymore!) and told to wait until the 'junior doctor' was free. Which took about 35 minutes. I whiled away time talking to people I have been out of touch with since ages. India-Srilanka was on, and India was winning. Cheers!
Eventually I was called in. The regular reading test was an embarrassment in itself, by the time it was done, the doc was regarding me with a look that clearly said "Are you even educated?" Then they wanted to dilate my pupils. Now, I am extremely phobic about getting things put in my eyes, specially when people tell me "Madam your vision will be blurred from now" (I guess what she meant was for two-three hours, but language was a major barrier in our communication). Having no go, I got that done as well. And freaked out like never before when I couldn't see clearly. And was relieved like never before when I heard the doctor say "Your retina is normal."
The three-hour ordeal was over. And witha heart lighter than the sunlight rushing towards my retina through my dilated pupils, I concluded that eye-people aren't such monsters, really.
And all is well. There is a god up there, afterall.
4 comments:
Teeth people and eye people sounds right out of a rushdie novel :)
And yeah.....if i were you, i would get all the more anti and angsty towards the word "reception" than i ALREADY AM!!!
hey, Jamuna..I am...and I can understand myself really really well right now...am really looking forward to taking all my senses to the grave...intact!!!:)
LMAO! Your are the cutest thing ever, with glasses and dilated pupils and all that!
Hope you didnt end up poking someone in the eye in the process of asking for directions in your blurred state of eye. Did you cross the road like that? Haan?
I ALWAYS cross roads like that...you know it...I bang into 50 different things without dilated pupils...but well...thats me...and I'm really happy you are reading even if I'm not writing...thanks sweetie...:):)btw...got new glasses....:) am thrilled abt it...will show when we meet next...
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