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Well after the great birthday celebration in The Manning, I spent a few days with my son Nick and his lovely girlfriend Mimi. Two weeks before my birthday I had quite severe conjunctivitis but was treated and it seemed fine. So after my birthday I put new contact lens in my eyes . . . oh bad mistake. I had two different lens in each eye, the brand in the right eye started to feel scratchy and irritable on Friday and last Saturday morning I woke up in excruciating pain so I went to the optometrist who took out the lens, tut tutted and said I should go to the local hospital as there were no eye doctors available. Saturday afternoon is not a good time to sit in Taree emergency. Football injuries, kids with scrapes and runny noses, young mums with babies. After four hours of being relegated by more “serious” cases I couldn’t cope with the pain and went home to bed. In the middle of the night I felt as though I had some devil ripping my eye ball out with a red hot poker but most frightening of all – I couldn’t see out of my eye.
Back to the hospital at 7am but I was told there’d be another long long wait and there was no eye specialist on call. He was at Port Macquarie. Right I’ll drive over there. Oh no, you can’t do that, you have to see our doctor here who will refer you to Port. Forget it. Boris and I got in the car and headed to Port an hour away. When the opthalmic surgeon saw me he said every hour I lost in the emergency waiting room was reducing the chance of saving my sight. So, I was whacked into Port hospital straight away. The infection meant that I’ve had drops in my eye every hour 24 hours day and night for several days. But I think the enforced rest has been good for me. I was well looked after and the food was terrific. A hospital with its own chef! Anyway I am slowly responding and have been told to avoid using contact lens. My poor publisher and editor, while sympathetic, are having conniptions at my lost writing time. I assured them I while I was lying back in bed I was writing in my head. And mentally I was far away from the hospital room re-living adventures in the outback.
Cheers
Di’s latest book The Islands, published by Pan Macmillan, is now on sale.
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