Swollen Eye

See my swollen eyes, since Saturday afternoon after I got back from outside (sunny day!) It started as an itch and slowly developed to this. My left eye shrunk to half its size and my right eye shrunk to 75% its normal size. And the most disgusting thing is, although I have 5 clinics within 100m radius of my house, none of them were opened on a Saturday afternoon! So I had to stay home (alternatively I could have gone to A&E, but they weren’t hurting, so I guess what doesn’t hurt wouldn’t kill me that fast). These doctors can jolly well go to hell because it’s pretty obvious they’re more entrepreneurs than true healers by the Hippocratic oath. Or maybe I should say, people living in my area shouldn’t fall sick on Saturdays because the doctors decree so. Pffft.

After some differential diagnosis on myself, with contributions from my family, we gather it could be:
1. allergy to  dust generated by the renovation work that’s going on in the house above mine (bloody hell)
2. allergy to a certain ingredient in this curry spice my mother used
3. allergy to something I was exposed to when I went out
4. Sun exposure (well I was going round taking pictures in the sun for 3 hours …)

But seeing that my throat wasn’t closing up, I don’t think it was a serious allergy. (Even thought I had 2 small rash, one behind my ear and one on my arm.) And so I went and hid in my room and turned on the air-con and tried to keep out of the dust. And the itch stopped (hurrah) and today the swelling subsided considerably. (Although when I got up this morning, I had SINGLE eye-lid on the right eye. People who know me should know that it’s next to impossible for me to wake up with single eyelids any day. So the swelling must have been real bad.)

Ack. So my eyes are still damn puffy now. Unglam. And I can imagine the few more wrinkles that will appear after the puffiness is all gone. Whose fault? The stupid renovators and stupid Indonesia with their forest torching that’s creating all that haze in Singapore. Now my eyes are dry too because of them. Urgh.

And as such I’m in a bad mood. I apologize in advance to the people I barked/will bark at. Blame the renovators and Indonesia if you want.