Disrupted cells on the surface of cornea??!?!

Few weeks ago I had an eye infection which involved a lot of inflammation in my left eye. The symptoms were sensitivity to light, inability to keep eye open, redness and soreness particularly on the top lid. No discharge exception a little for first day. I went to the optometrist, was ordered off my contact lenses and was treated with two different antibiotic drops.

A week later the infection was gone and there was no pain or redness anymore. I was taken off the antibiotic drops but my optometrist noticed "an uneven corneal surface" and "disrupted cells on the cornea" and recommended me use an eye gel for a week while wearing no contact lenses to give time for the cornea to heal. I thought fair enough and followed his instructions. Another week passed and when I went back to him today for a check-up the advice was to the surface has only healed very little in the past week and ideally to keep off contact lenses for a longer period of time.

Can anyone tell me if this sounds right? I have googled this and all I could find was 'scratched cornea' or 'corneal abrasion', which sounds like nothing the optometrist has described (biggest giveaway is there is no pain involved at all). Is there such thing as disrupted cells on the corneal surface??? Given that everywhere I've looked it says that the cornea is the quickest self-healing tissue on the human body I'm just not that convinced when he says I should stay off contact lenses for weeks and months to get this to heal properly...