Trials and tribulations

It happens everyday. At least twice a day. It starts with my hands shaking to such an extent I’m scared they’ll just fall off my shoulders. And then it happens. And it leaves me teary-eyed.

I’m not suffering from depression. It’s just this difficult to put a drop of eye-drops into each of my eyes.

It started more than a month when my doctor suggested I use these drops four times a day to reduce the irritation in my eyes because of staring at the computer screen for long.

Things were fine as long as I was at home, because someone used to hold my head down and put the drops in. I tried to do it myself as my vacation was coming to an end, saying that I would, after all, have to do it myself when I come to my hostel. It usually never worked out properly, and someone else would end up doing it for me.

Now that I’m away, it’s a pain. I push my head and force the eye open with one hand, while the other shivers with the bottle held over my eye. I can see the drop hanging at the edge of the nozzle, stubbornly refusing to fall out. It seems like eons before the drop falls down. Alas, it doesn’t fall in my eye – for the jerk that my head gives when it sees the drop is on its way to my eye( :P), the drop lands on my cheek. Repeated tries get the drop closer to my eye, moving from the cheek slowly upward, until it falls on my eyelashes. By this time, my eye gets dry and painful. Process repeated after a minute of ‘rest’. And sometime, in a stroke of luck, it falls into the eye. Process now repeated with the other eye.

The only thing that’s keeping me going with the eye-drops is that I don’t have to use them after 28th of January. I don’t know how effective they’ve been, but who cares? Just four more days to go!