cunji=conjunctivitis

Cunji

After a restless almost a sleepless night i got up at abt 8 on a Sunday which by my standards is early..
My eyes were red and the small sty i had till the day before had become bigger still just abt the size of a normal one.
After showing my eyes to mum the both of us came to a decision to go to the doc. We wanted to go to the nearest doc cuz it wz ntn serious.. dad hates that clinic.. he feels that even a fit person would catch a disease in its waiting hall. But he wz in jaipur on work..

So mom n i went to that doc. Being a Sunday his timings were a bit lax and he wz to attend to patients frm 9 onwards. We promptly reached at 10 min to 9. I had worn dads Aviators and wz super excited abt them n wz taking pics of myself in the car. We reached the doc.. The place was packed... Absolutely stuffed.. Our number wz i think 15 or 20.. WE thought it want take much time so we decided to wait ..

The clock kept tic tocking 9Oclock came n went.. No sing of the doc. Okay its a Sunday he’ll b here any moment we should cut him some slack. 9:30-10 still no sign of him we were just sitting there doing ntn at all.. bored out of our wits.. At abt 10:30 the doc shows up.. We all (the people in the waiting room by now a hell of a lot) breath a sigh of relief.. But wat does the doc do... He come n goes to his office and then in 2 min comes out and vanishes.. He just vanishes.. Then mom looses it and we walk out frm there.

We go home hav breakfast.. As soon as we r done with breakfast mom tells me to go with Hanuman bh ( Hamuman bh though our helper he has been in the family longer than me) to the doc.. So we go to a hospital where he believed we will b able to hav my eys tested..

On occasion of sunday the docs r on holiday.. Wat is this??? Where r the docs?? But this wz not a popular hospital so i thought its ok..
We then go Noida’s so called best hospital.. Kailash hosp.. Its 12 o clock the reception dude tells us that hell start attending to patients at one and our turn should come by 2... Wat the hell??? Do ppl not fall ill on Sundays.?!
After a fit of anger by Hanuman bh and lots of laughing on my side we make way to the eye hospital hoping its open..
It wz the 4th hospital i wz visiting in a single day.. Searching fr a doc. Fr a minor redness and agitation of the eye..
we reached this one now the gates shut and on cars outside.. oh my god its closed.. Why me?????
anyhow we go to the guard he tells us its open only fr emergencies n no matter wat the prob is the fee is 400 bucks..( i m used to discounted prices being a part of echs and this wz just way to over priced) but still i go in convincing my self that they will give me a concession the next day..
(In my head- why god??? Why me??) ( the whys were mainly bcuz of utter boredom, the 400 bucks and the least cuz of my "emergency")
Any how we go inside the doc comes. While waiting fr her Hanuman bh starts preaching the guard abt the difficulties of life.. How doc, lawyers, police and schools r so expensive but still ppl go to them cuz of reasons he wz explaining them..
It wz abt 1 and after a long hunt fr a doc i hav found one yay!!!

She ( the doc) wz abt 23-24 barley looking like a doc.. She wz friendly and though nearly killed me in the eye check up. .after near death she declares that i hav mild cunji and an avg sty.
She gave a few eye drops.. N at the end of that appointment she jokingly asks fr a party.. N i tactfully reply next time we meet pakka.. We went to buy the drops went home blah blah blah..

At abt 10 30 at night my eye starts bleeding n not just drops proper type ‘khoon kai assu’. The handkerchief i wz using to wipe to wipe the blood of wz drenched in blood.. As one of my friends i dont remember who called it 'gore'. Mom dad ( who had returned frm jaipur) decided to go to the hosp.. In my head i m calculating how much time will it take to reach a hosp biased on the mornings experience.. 1030 + 4 hrs is 2 30.. Shit ill get to a doc at 2 am.. Shit!!!
We ( ie mom dad) r smarter than that.. they called the eye hosp before leaving.. Hmm would i hav thought of doing that..
We reach the hosp.. Its the same doc.. Oh god i owe her a party this time..
She checks the eye cleans the blood which is a torture.. Tells me to take a heavy dose of the drops she had given earlier n to come to her tomm ( i cant even use the raat hai wala bahana fr the party now)( fortunately she dint say any thing abt it) .. On the way back home i am thinking to myself i am a bond villain the one in casino royal the bleeding eye dude yay!!!
Anyhow next morn i m not able to open my eyes the blood had clotted.. I made my way to the loo put some water on the eye...
I make it to the hosp the next day (monday) take the back the 400 hundred bucks they took frm me the previous day.. Pay the normal fee of 60 Rs.. And go meet the doc.. It wz some one else( i felt kind of sad it wasent the doc the last day i had started liking her) (ironically i had started likeing the whole situation i wz in).. So this doc a tall guy extremely polite with mom and friendly with me.. He checked the eyes n said that the bleeding should not start again. N reassured me that I do hav cunji... We were abt to leave his clinic n just then i gave him a super polite smile n asked him "uncle i should not go to school.. should i?? "
He became stiff n asked me which class i wz in i told him 11th he started laughing n gave me 7 days off... A full week on doc orders.. Even mom could not tell me to go to school before that.. I wz super kicked with life...
Aviators, no school, hardly any illness.. Wat else could a person want..



Abt 2 days into the mini vocation i wanted to go to school.. I wanted meet ppl... I wanted to hang out with my friends.. Sleep n talk in classes..
I wanted to go back to my normal schedule….


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