Today was a strange day, and I was thinking to myself, this would make for a good blog. So here we are! Thanks for coming, I'm so pleased to have you here!
Today, I went to the Emergency Room! Woo! I work at a hospital so you might be thinking, oh cool normal, whatever Mandi, braggy pants magee. But that's not the case, instead I was a patient! Now before you start planning my funeral, don't worry I'm going to make it through. Let's go back to the beginning though.
I was going to bed last night and I was washing my face, taking out my contacts, whatever the usual, and all of a sudden my eye started going crazy and got all red and painful and I was like hm did I get soap in my eye? Because weirdly that happens to me often. Later, the doctor made a joke about that happening to me often, and I was like uh no, of course not, but really let's be honest, I'm bad at washing my face sometimes. Anyway, so I went to bed and it was kinda meh and kinda watery and weird, but I was like meh I'm fine. Then I wake up and my eye was SO RED, I looked like a vampire or something creepy so I was like well whatever, I work at a hospital, worst case I ask a doctor there. So I go about my morning and ask all the nurses for advice because at this point it was pretty painful, pretty throbby, very light sensitive, and I was psuedo having trouble seeing out of my left eye. This was probably a really good place to be since I was going about my day by really sick people, you're welcome everyone (don't worry it ended up not being contagious). So then two of the residents after rounds look at it for me, one gets out his phone and even shines his flashlight in my eye, it was hilarious, they were like consulting and discussing what it could be. I felt ridiculous. It turns out they felt it was going to be a serious thing so recommended I go to the Emergency Department. I was like woah bros, that's a little bit drastic. I'm honestly the kind of girl that will wait a week or two and hardly will take advil for little things because I'm weird. Anyway, so at 2:00pm I decide it's getting ridiculous and that I was getting worried by the worried looks the doctors were giving me, so I decide to head down with my supervisor who drops me off with another social worker. She basically cheats me all the way through the ER because I work there, so that was awesome! Sorry to all the sick people that I cut...whoops!
I end up seeing the ER doc who was super great and did lots of fun tests that made my eyes burn and sting and numb and then we realized that my left eye is really losing vision quickly, so that was scary. So here I am talking with my social work companion about what color my new glass eye is going to be since I was clearly going to need a new eyeball, I decided on green because my eye's are hazel and green seems like a great color eye. Think Mad Eye Moody, only Mad Eye Mandi. Anyway, so he tells me he is concerned because of my loss of vision so he sends me to the Ophthalmologist.
Fun fact about me, I once decided that if I ever wanted to be a doctor I'd be an eye doctor because really eyes seem really fascinating, but I quickly decided today that no thank you because I personally don't like to have things stabbing my eyes, so I would hate doing that to others. Anyway, in the end I have some eye infection with a fancy name that is NOT pink eye, SO COOL IT because that's nasty, but it was great I went today because apparently this eye infection could have turned into ulcers, which let's be real, ulcers are legit scary and I really didn't want to be Mad Eye Mandi.
So here I am now with eye drops and antibiotics and a follow-up appointment for next week, not to mention I'll be wearing my glasses for the next month so get used to my trendy, nerd look. I also love this Ophthalmologist because he google'd the apparent cicada invasion that's going to descend upon New York here any day. I told him I thought he was lying so naturally, he google'd it and there we have it. For you reference if you think I'm also bullshitting you: http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/09/17676853-17-years-in-the-making-this-springs-cicada-invasion-generates-early-buzz?lite
So not only have I lived through a hurricane and a blizzard, but apparently a cicada storm as well. He told me to be sure and get an umbrella for this invasion. I think he's my favorite eye doctor ever.
In other news, my internship is going well. I am learning a ton! A few weeks ago someone let me loose on a floor all by myself and I swear no one died and it was a wonderful day! I was even asked to cover the floor again the next Monday! I think that was probably a good sign. I only have 9 more internship days, which is really hard to believe. Time flies when you're having fun? Or really stressed? Or something like that. I have definitely learned what I love and what I hate about hospitals. I love patients, but also hate them occasionally. I hate doctors, but love them sometimes. It's all about balancing the love-hate relationship and asserting my social work beliefs and advocating for my patients because at the end of the day, I'm in it to do everything in my power to make my patient's life easier and they really are in a time of crisis at the hospital, so I will do everything I can to be their advocate.
I think at the end of the day I just really missed having my mom by my side at the emergency room because we sure have spent some great memories at the emergency room, right mom? An appendicitis here, a set of stitches there, some asthma attacks, and some serious flus? Here I am today, still being the sick daughter. Hey, I never promised I'd be easy to raise. And now look at me guys! Going to the emergency room all by myself, sort of, I also cheated. Well that's all besides the point though isn't it?
So there you have it ladies and gentlemen, my experience in the emergency room today and a short paragraph about my internship. I am graduating so soon, I'm kind of freaking out! I will try to be better about this blog I swear, but school is getting CRAZY. Also this will be the blog that Eric and I keep while we're in South America so stay tuned for that beginning May 26th and ending July 8! WEE! I am such a lucky lady to get to do the things I do and I wouldn't be where I am today without any of you! Thanks for loving me, Mad Eyed, or not. I'll let you know if the eye doctor was wrong though and I install a new green eye. I feel like this would help me relate more to my patients right?
With love and infectious eyeballs,
Mad Eye Mandi
Ps. I am not going to proofread this because my eyesight is still kinda fuzzy from the thousands of different eye drops and fun things they prodded my eyes with today, so instead I'm going to crawl into bed and thank my lucky stars that I have my sight, so COOL IT if I have any typos, I was almost BLIND! Kinda :)
