07/01/2022
A while ago I had conjunctivitis on my left eye. I knew because that eye was all too red, and there was this itching sensation I felt each time I looked at something or someone. It felt like I had little crumbs of pepper stuck to it.
But I think what really got me freaking out was the fact that the eye dripped liquid half the time. It made me seem like I was constantly crying. I recall once during a Pharmacology class when my lecturer made a joke about "how the human body is so complex you can sometimes mistake it for Maths".đŸ˜€đŸ˜€
Gosh, I started laughing. It was my kind of joke, but all of a sudden someone turned at me and said aloud, "Look, everyone, some of us cannot laugh without crying". He said it because my left eye was dripping tears.
So, suddenly, I went from laughing at a joke to being the joke. It was so pathetic.đŸ˜‘ That same day, I ran to a pharmacy and purchased an eye drop. The pharmacist instructed me to use it on both eyes, not just the infected one. Well, I did, and you won't believe that instead of healing me, my right eye also got infected.
I went back to the pharmacy, but HERE IS WHAT THE PHARMACIST EXPLAINED. And I think you too need to hear this: "Conjunctivitis, like many eye diseases, is caused by microbial infection. That means it can spread. So, it moved from just your left eye to both of your eyes, most likely because when you were using the eye drop, you allowed the tip of the container to touch your infected left eye. So, the infectious microorganisms were able to attach to the tip. Now when you applied the drop to the good right eye, it too got infected."
Forget the whole grammar, all he was trying to say was that whenever we apply eye drops, we should never let the tip of the container touch the surface of the eyes.
I felt really impressed by how vast his knowledge was, by how remarkable.
