In the midst of the summer heat, I went out and braved the sun to run some errands. Had to get money from Western Union, went to pick up my professional license from PRC (Professional Regulations Commision) and renew my driver’s license at LTO (Land Trasportation Office). I was also able to buy a cell phone and ship it to Switzerland.
I was able to finish them by 4:00 pm. I just grabbed myself a grande iced caramel macchiato and headed home.
I changed into my uniform and hit the road again for my night duty.
It was the usualy shift for me. My co-staff nurse just recognize the my left eye was red and I just dismissed the comment by telling him that it’s just irritated by the contact lense.
At 4:00 am while I was dressing the wound of the patient who has undergone coronary artery bypass graft. When I was about to drain the syringe in the comfort room, I took a glance at the mirror and was shocked to see that my left eye was bloodshot.
I hurriely went to the nurse’s bathroom and flushed it with sterile water. I even asked the help of a fellow nurse to flush it but the bleeding won’t stop so we decided to head for the ER. There, they did not do anything. They just asked me to rest. It’s useless. I decided to go back to the ward to finish my task instead.
After my shift, I went to the infirmary to see a doctor. He ordered to run some tests on me: CBC or complete blood count, PTPA and aPTT (both will check on my bleeding parameters). They all turned out tobe normal. Thank God!
I was told that it was a subconjunctival hemorrhage that will resolve on its own.
According to wrongdiagnosis.com:

Bleeding from one of the tiny, almost invisible blood vessel under the conjunctiva (the clear lining covering the eyeball and the inside of the eyelid). The condition can cause the whites of the eye to develop red patches from the blood trapped under the conjunctiva. Although the condition looks serious, it is painless, doesn’t impair vision and requires no treatment as the blood will usually disappear within a few weeks. The condition may occur for no apparent reason or may result from such things as an injury, coughing and heavy lifting

Since I am not hypertensive and diabetic, I know that it was caused by straining too much lifting a patient.