Allergy Eyes
Photograph by tea..
Inhaling through my nose, I filled myself with the warm afternoon sunlight as though it were air. Breathing deeply, one could say this was a great allergy-free day for me. My contacts felt fairly natural and I appauled myself for my dedication to weening myself off allergy medication with the help of a teaspoon of honey in my morning tea everyday.
These were my thoughts as I walked into my optometrist’s office yesterday. All was well and right in my world. Then the eye doctor did her magic (with drops of this and that) and asked, “Are you having a bad allergy day?”
I paused, “No, it is a pretty good day.”
“Really?” her eyebrows raised in a bit of disbelief. As it turned out, my respiratory system was doing quite well without the allergy pills, but my eyes were not. Apparently my membranes and such were puffy and swollen and the Corneal area looked as though I had been scraping it with sandpaper. Chapped, was another word she used. I had heard of chapped lips, even a chapped nose, but chapped eyes?
I have been having contact problems for some time now and had finally made an appointment to have my eyes checked. I am not sure what I expected, maybe that I would be allergic to the contacts themselves?
By the end of what turned out to be a long eye session, I found myself with new rituals to do daily for the next week before she will consent to changing my prescriptions or ordering my contacts (I do not write this in bitterness, I am relieved to have an eye doctor who will help me fix the problem, my last eye doctor was not so sufficient). Now I must go back on antihistamine pills, take allergy eye drops twice a day, and more or less not wear contacts for the week. How will my vanity ender?
The she said with a wink, “Or you could just try hypnosis.” She admitted she is not a holistic sort of girl, so I think she was just teasing me. However, I admit that there is a part of me that is seriously thinking about using hypnosis. I really do not want to go back to the world I just emerged from, the one where I am completely depended on allergy medication. Yet, I have paid dear money to this woman for her learned advice.
Here is my compromise. I will follow these daily rituals for the week. In addition to them, I will use self-hypnosis to help promote healing. Depending on what the doctor says next week, I may try to keep just the eye drops for awhile and self-hypnosis for allergy relief in general. We will see how that goes.
