Conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the conjunctiva. This is characterized by Reddening of the eyes, itching, discharge of mucus, and a feeling as if something felt inside of the eyes. This disease is seasonal and is communicable, it spreads so fast within days.
I contracted this communicable disease some years ago, in 2011 to be precise. I was writing my final exams in college at that time. The disease was already in circulation, most of the students and including teachers had contracted it, you'll see them wearing dark glasses to either prevent the spread or hide it from being noticed because it's always irritating. I had this belief that I can't contact it because over the years, I've always been safe when others around me suffered from it. So I became careless, boasting that I'm immune to it, little did I know , it was coming to me.
One fateful day, during my physics practical, I felt like a mist entered my eye. I tried to scratch it out but the more I did, the more I felt like it's still there, so I kept scratching until I felt a drop of mucus and my eyes became teary that I realized I had contacted Apollo. I felt bad that I was in a hall at that moment doing a practical. I hurried up to finish the practical while cleaning up the discharge almost every 3 seconds to prevent people from noticing and ran out when I was satisfied with what I've done.
It was Friday. Happy that I still have the weekend to treat myself before the next week. I bought an eye drop that I inserted almost every minute. I bought another when I exhausted the one I bought earlier but it didn't seem to work. We started to find solutions to it, some students advised that we use our early morning urine, some advised we use a tree called dogoyaro (Neem), some said fuel works , and I tried all of them in an attempt to get a cure. I can't specifically tell which of them worked because I tried everything I was advised to use and I believed I abused them because I was looking for a cure. I became fine the following week and this made me careful not to stare into someone's eye who has the disease for long.
