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As anyone who has known me for a while will know, my right eye has teared pretty much constantly for the last 10 months or so. This all started on August 2007 when it was actually painful enough that I couldn’t work. My eye doctor and family physician both seemed to be under the impression that I just got something in my eye and that it would come out soon enough.

For about a month the tearing went away, however it came back, only this time it didn’t actually hurt, just teared. I informed my family physician again and he told me that he would start setting up an appointment with an eye specialist. I saw the eye specialist in May and he wanted to do some tests to try and determine the cause. We couldn’t actually do the test in his office since I continually passed out due to the drops he was putting in my eyes (Fantastic eh!?), so we scheduled an appointment at the hospital to do the tests.

That appointment was today and involved him sticking a syringe down my tear ducts on both eyes and squirting saline down them. I guess the point was to see if I could taste it in my mouth when he did. I could only taste it when he did my left eye, so he deduced that my right tear duct is blocked and that my left one is 80% blocked.

So now, since I know it is no longer a vision threatening issue, I have a choice. Have surgery on both of my eyes to unblock them, or simply don’t and have to continuously wipe my right eye for the rest of my life. :-/ I would be able to go home after the surgery, but would have tubes in my tear ducts for a week. I’m fairly certain I will go for the surgery, since I don’t want a constant red spot under my right eye due to wiping.

And yes. I know I haven’t posted in ages, but I’ve been busy. I have a tonne of stuff I could post from the last few months, but would be weird to post it so far after the fact, no?