Travel horror story: how a rare eye infection put a halt to our travels
You may be wondering why I haven’t posted on here for a while. If you’ve read my first post, you will know how excited I was for this trip. Unfortunately, a stream of unforeseen bad luck has meant that, for the past couple of months, it hasn’t been quite the “new and amazing, dream-come-true chapter of my life” I had been envisaging. It all started a month and a half ago; on the day we made our escape from Coober Pedy. How it started That morning, I felt the small irritation of having something in my eye. I ignored it, thinking that it was nothing; maybe my eye was just a bit dry and it would eventually go away on its own. The feeling gradually got worse over the course of the week, becoming more and more uncomfortable until I stopped wearing my contact lenses, thinking that my eye just needed a break. A few days later, my eye was extremely red and irritated as well as being so light sensitive that I could barely keep my eyes open during the day, even if it was cloudy. Not hav...