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I was four years old, and my look was like all other girls (ok, ok, I wore glasses, but how many "normal" girls did too?) when I got that damn conjunctivitis. OK, it is nothing so bad, I had only to get some eye-drops every six hours. Into my left eye first, then into the right one. It was ok, but... one day, my parents were out of the house, and my Danielle, baby-sitter had to take care of me. One of her dues was to give me eye-drops at 9 pm. It would be ok if... But, that stupid bottle was so near to the bottle full of concentrated hydrogen peroxide, so she made mistake... horrible mistake. |
| Danielle, opened my eye and put several drops of peroxide into my left eye - YEEEEEEE, i was creaming, I was scramble, so much that she had no chance to put them into my right eye. Fortunately! After I continue to scream several more minutes, she paid attention to my eye: my cornea (normally brown) became white, my upper eyelid was blood-red... Poor girl! She called emergency for the first aid, but it was too late. After three days in the hospital, I was dismissed from hospital with my left eye blind or nearly |  |
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blind. I was able to see light, but not any shape. I had a patch over my eye for two weeks till my eyelid tissue healed up. But, my cornea never healed, it remained white, and opaque, so my eye-sight never returned... I was enough young that I recovered fast, and I adjusted very well to "monocular sight". Of course, I had and still have some problems with depth perception, seeing my nose all the time still make me nervous sometime, but these are small problems. Real problems came later, just because my left eye was not really blind. It can see light very well, too much! |
| When I started school, problems begun. I had problem to see clear when reading or writing, just because that blur light seen by my left eye. At the beginning, I was covering my left eye by a hand to see better. After I got new subject like geometry, requiring both hands to use tools, it was no more possible, so somewhere in the third class of the primary school, I got glasses with one lens blind to wear at the school or when working at home. I must say that I was shy to wear those glasses, so I was looking for something less visible, to be more similar to my friends. So, the patch came. |  |
| After that, I never go around without patch, aI found my look much, much better with it. My crippled left eye look so horribly ugly uncovered, that I really can not understand how I was able to go around without patch before. I am not shy, but I don't think it is something nice to be seen in my photo without patch, so that old one is enough, I'm sure. After I begun to wear patch for permanent, I became much more self-confindent... So I continue to wear it now, when my left eye is nearly completely blind (20/300), so I can see clear with my good eye even without it. |  |
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