Me Left Eye

Hey friends,

Last night, as I was removing my contact lenses, I realized that they had somewhat dried up since I was out the whole day. I managed to get the right one out, but the left was bit more difficult. It eventually came out, but while watching The Apprentice later, my left eye was bugging me a whole. I thought maybe I needed to wash out the dirt or something. Or maybe one of my eyelash was stuck under the lid or something.

After watching the show, I checked out my eye, and I noticed a small incision right under my pupil. I freaked out! I had no idea how it got there. It was midnight already, and I did not feel like going out to get my eye checked. I was in constant pain the whole night, and I realized that the only way I could be painless was to keep my head upright. If I tilted my head, there would be a shooting pain from my eye to my ear, jaw and head. So I tried sleeping sitting on my futon. That did not help, and I eventually dozed off lying down.

In the morning today, I could barely open my left eye, as it had become sensitive to the sunlight. Oh no! I had to wear my sunglasses inside my own house. I took a quick shower, and then went to the pharmacy, where the pharmacist gave me strong eye drops with painkiller, and eye patches. I was told to relax my eyes, stay indoor and use the drops for a couple of days.

Now, I already had plans for brunch, and so I had to go wearing my eye patch. Of course I had a lot of questions and explaining to do. I ultimately realized how difficult it is to walk around with one eye. My perception of things changed somewhat as it became difficult to assess distance with one eye only. I was not bi-focal any longer. I understood how difficult it would be for blind people to navigate and make their way around the house and outside of their house.

As it is, my sense of balance is already not perfect because on an imbalance in my inner ear fluids, and so walking with one eye made it all the more confusing. It became very tough, I eventually went against the doctor’s prescription, and removed the eye patch because using one eye created a greater strain on my right eye and created a huge headache. It was funny that the artificial indoor lighting was not hurting me, but as soon as I stepped out, the natural sunlight hurt me so intensely.

I realized more deeply how well designed and perfectly made we human beings are. God's designs are indeed perfect, and I am in awe of God's intricate and complicate design of a human body. No building can ever match the complex structure that is found in the design of a himan body, right from the structure of the DNA upto the perfect proportions of the skeletal structure, to the skin covering the whole skeltal frame, holding all the muscles and body parts inside. It can't get any better than this.

Mansur