"K" wrote in reply to Bob Hobden
A week and a half ago I walked into our small greenhouse, turned around,
and
straight into our tall Oleander, a leaf of which went up inside my glasses
and stabbed me in the eye.
To cut a very long story short after two days it got bad such that it was
very light sensitive and painful and the "Walk in Centre" (not local!) I
went to said I had scratched the cornea. Turns out their treatment was
incorrect because of the depth of the cut and I now have had to see a
local
eye surgeon three times this week because it has ulcerated. Three lots of
eye drops to take. Only now am I able to look at a PC screen or any light
although my vision is still blurred in the right eye. Still can't drive.

My Surgeon says if you get something like that in your eye go to Hospital
ASAP for a checkup (and try to see an eye surgeon) don't wait for it to
get
worse, with eyes it's better safe that sorry!

Bob, very sorry to hear that. By coincidence, my husband did the same last
weekend. Though not as bad as yours, it's still a severe infection, and
we've had 4 hospital visits since last Monday. I reiterate your advice,
don't 'wait and see', get straight to the hospital. Between appointments,
his eye seemed to be getting worse, so he went back straight away, and it
was most certainly the right thing to do, as they immediately upped him to
hourly doses of a stronger antibiotic.

Thanks Kay, hope your husband is on the mend too, he has my sympathy and
unfortunately I do understand exactly what he's going through.
I feel like my eye is improving now, I can drive again and the light
sensitivity has almost gone, but the Eye Surgeon said yesterday "a very
slight improvement but it's still touch and go" which is comforting ,not!
Hope there is better news during tomorrow's visit.

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Regards
Bob H
17mls W. of London.UK