Just realised it’s been a while...

... and I left on a bit of a cliffhanger.

My CT-scan was all clear, no funny business showing up in my brain.

I had a follow up appointment the next day (why do hospitals do this—discharge in the wee hours, and ask you to come back the next morning, maybe six hours later) with the hospital ophthalmologist, who did some additional testing, said everything seems fine, but I should consider following up with a more thorough exam. I mentioned that I was due for an ophthalmology appointment—my optometrist had referred me to the Kensington Eye Institute back on Hallowe’en when I got my eye exam for new glasses, and told me I should expect to hear from them in January or February, and to call them if I hadn’t heard anything by then, so this was my trigger to call. The hospital ophthalmologist said that was great news, everyone at Kensington is great, so I gave them a call.

They said they had no record of a referral. 

We had a brief conversation where they basically told me to call my eye doc and have them re-send the referral, but it would probably be months before I got an appointment. I called my eye doc, told them about the missing referral and my subconjunctival haemorrhage, and they said they’d call me back.

A couple of days later, Kensington called with my appointment—at the end of this month! I don’t know what they said, but it worked. That appointment is Friday.

Meanwhile, I asked the hospital ophthalmologist about the recurring subconjunctival haemorrhages (this is the third time it’s happened) considering I don’t have any of the obvious risk factors, like high blood pressure. They said, maybe it’s because I have such low blood pressure? That a BP reading that most would take as “normal” would be enough of a spike that my eyeballs, used to very low BP, just go kaboing? I will definitely be asking about that in Friday’s appointment.