Itchy eyes and randomness

[elusivek]

My left eyelid started to get really itchy and painful, so I had tried to use some sort of topical creams, thinking I had some small invisible wounds and such. After one week, it didn't help anything, and my eye started to swell.

Doctor says I have a case of bletharitis. After reading up on it, it seems more like a Seborrheic blepharitis as I had flaky-looking skin on my eyelids and such. Doctor prescribed some topical cream with chloramphenicol and it seems to have helped. I have a slightly swollen left eye and I'm on strict instruction to lay off the make up, so I've been going to work looking like a zombie the last 2 days. 5 more days of treatment now.

This is the last weekend my parents are going to be around for a while. They'll all head off to Europe and only return in mid-August. Party time?

The the UK thing, me being shallow and uninformed and naive, I'm just thinking what to do with my remaining british pounds.

Some kind of role reversal has been going on at home. I thought usually it's "kids that ask for parents for a supplementary credit card". I went to get my mom a supplementary card this afternoon. She's secretly happy (she hasn't said anything mean to me this evening) so I dunno. Small victory?

Friday Five's not out yet and I missed this week's Wordless Wednesday. Let me hunt for a photo now.

Comments

[found-world.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear about your eye problem. I've had blepharitis before, but I do not recall if it was called seborrheic blepharitis or not. I was advised to use baby shampoo and rub it gently against my shut eye. I did that in the shower, but I had to be careful. I also might've used a warm, damp hand towel pressed gently against it. I'm glad the cream you've been prescribed has helped.

[notte0.livejournal.com]

i had another type of blepharitis before as well and the baby shampoo and heat compress thing were prescribed too. if i recall correctly, that time it was an infection in the follicles where my eyelashes grow out.

this time the problem is focused on the actual eye-lid so i guess it's different...? I did a google translate of blepharitis to Chinese and the characters literally means "face infection". haha it's really weird.

[found-world.livejournal.com]

Have you had a stye in your eye? I had one around the time I had the infection, on the inside of my eyelid. I don't know why I was having a hard time of it then, but it's over with for the time being.

[evilcoc0nut.livejournal.com]

I had something like that years ago when I worked at a bank. Tried a variety of things, but it turned out I had an allergy to all the particles on money lol. It didn't fully go away until I quit.

[notte0.livejournal.com]

more proof that money is dirty LOL j/k

[sayuri2023.livejournal.com]

If its a lot of money then best to keep it where it is... I doubt it will fall more than it did today

[notte0.livejournal.com]

it's just around a thousand pounds. I don't intend to change them even if they drop or rise, as I know I'll be visiting some part of the UK some time soon anyway. Best to keep it :D

[deadlevel.livejournal.com]

sorry to hear about the eye thing. that's probably one of the most irritating places to have an injury / disease / etc. i had pinkeye once and it was a nightmare. hope it goes away soon!

[notte0.livejournal.com]

thank you! I guess it's almost cleared! I still have a light itch once in a while but it's heaps better than a couple days ago.