Tuesday, July 10, 2007

June starts out with a bang

Well... one day June 4th to be exact as I sat on my bed quietly reading my latest greatest novel, I kept trying to shoo a fly away from my shoulder.. after a time or two I couldn't imagine why this fly continued to land on the same place and I decided to find out what he was after! So, moments later, when he showed up again I realized it was not a fly - in fact it was not an insect at all, but rather it must be some dirt on my glasses... I took them off.. dusted them off returned them to my nose and it still continued to appear.. Oh silly me.. it must be some fuzz on my eyelash... I try to brush it off and now begin to realize this vision is not on the outside of my eye at all, but somewhere INSIDE my eye that I am seeing this black thing.

It started so suddenly and I really wasn't sure what to think, so I called the doc in Chisinau who immediately sent a driver out to my house to pick me up and get me to the capital and the comfortable medical facility. Once again.. doctor visit after doctor visit - cat scans, ultrasounds and dilated eyeballs, all of the most serious comliplications were ruled out and it was determined that possibily a recent head injury may have been the reason why it came on so suddenly although it is a normal complication with years of nearsightedness. There is a metal bar strung across the sidewalk at my residence and I don't always remember that it is there and had whacked the side of my head pretty hard with it..

It is interesting, because the way medicine is practiced here is to rule out the most serious indications first. So.. you have a headache??? Well.. let's make sure with this cat scan($48.00) that you don't have a tumor or aneurism... and now an ultrasound ($12.00) to measure the blood flow into your brain... so we can rule out a possible stroke... you get the idea... So.. the medicine prescribed was not available in Moldova, so straight from Romania, my medicine was picked up and brought to me.... Vitamin E and myrtle pills and boric acid drops for 60 days to increase the vascular fitness of my eye. Can't say they're not thorough!!!

So... I left the medical facility cleared for a planned vacation to Barcelona to see Linda Gail Erickson.. my high school partner in crime and fellow majorette... although we've been in touch throughout the years, we'd not seen each other for 22 years!!! More about Barcelona in my next post!