A while ago I gained conjunctivitis. For someone with my eye condition it's one heck of a ride. It is easily the worst pain I have ever felt. I've had several ulcers (not at the same time though) but I"ll take an ulcer over conjuctivitis any day.
A part of the treatment was eye cream in both eyes twice a day while eye drops in the infected eye every 2 hours. I also needed to wear a patch over the infected eye. Sadly the infection was in my strong eye, so for a while I was getting around with only 1 eye and that one is pretty bad. I can hardly read the top line of the chart. So I couldn't read much, watching TV was almost pointless, geting around was pretty tricy, stuff like that.
So my hat really does go off to my brothers and sisters who have severaly worse eye sight than me. I have gained a real appreciation for what I"ve got.
**edit** I forgot to say that I somehow gained [**iritis**] (http://www.webmd.com/eye-health/iritis#1) in the process