2 Hours in the ER

[Pete]

This morning Boy came into the kitchen and his right eye was a little red. I checked it out and saw nothing except it looked a little irritated, that stuff happens, no biggie. He went to school and the eye got more red so the nurse checked it out and said it looked irritated but saw nothing there. I picked him up after school and looked again and it was red but nothing there. We went to dinner and came home and I looked again and saw a black speck about half the size of a pin head about 1mm from his iris. Tried to flush it out and it wouldn't budge.

Called the pediatrician who happened to still be at his office and ran down there he tried to move it using the eyelid, nothing. To the ER we go. The Dr there tried to irrigate it out...nothing, tried to swab it out with a giant Q-Tip....nothing, still there. He calls the opthamologist who gives him advise so we tape his eye open and try to delicatly dislodge the foreign object with a needle. Boy is about to go into shock, by sack is tightened up and my nads are next to my adams apple and we try to looses the object embedded in his cornea......nothing.

Tomorrow we go to the opthamologist and he might have to be sedated. After the horror he went through tonight I doubt he is going to be too cool about anyone poking in his eye.

 

[SmallTown]

I can't stand even the thought of someone poking at my eye. Hope all goes well tomorrow!

 

[RoseRed]

Poor baby. Good luck tomorrow, let us know what happens.

 

[geminigrl]

Sorry to hear about your little boy, hope he gets better and they get whatever is in his eye out.

 

[cattitude]

My son had a piece of metal (a sliver)l stuck in his eye not too long ago. Went to opthamalogist, they numbed the eye, pulled out the metal with a tweezer looking thing. No problem. Dale had the exact same thing happen about a year ago. The opthamologist puts a few numbing drops in the eye and presto... Hope it works out the same for Boy. Give him a for me. Lucky those guys at the ER didn't blind him.

 

[vraiblonde]

Damn, Pete! yeah, you're better off having him sedated - the eyes are delicate enough without a nervous kid fidgeting when you're trying to poke around.

Poor little guy. Keep us posted.

 

[Pete]

It sucks having to hold him and fake being calm while somone is scratching his eye with a needle. It wouldn't have been too cool for me to hit the floor.

 

[Kain99]

I hope you are going to the doctor in Leonardtown center she rocks! Boy will love her! Shes cute and funny and tells tons of jokes!

 

[Pete]

I hope you are going to the doctor in Leonardtown center she rocks! Boy will love her! Shes cute and funny and tells tons of jokes!

Thats the one

 

[RoseRed]

Any idea what it is or how it got there?

 

[mAlice]

Boy's gonna' kick your azz.

 

[Pete]

Any idea what it is or how it got there?

I figure that it must have dropped in his eye last night when we were putting up the Christmas lights outside. It was small enough he didn't notice and it floated around under his eyelid all day irritating it. He must have rubbed it and ground it into his cornea.

I loked twice and didn't see it and the nurse at school looked twice and didn't see it.

 

[cattitude]

Did you know that if you get metal in your eye, it rusts within a short amount of time.

 

[Kizzy]

I had a great deal of shattered glass in my eye when I was 17 and had to have an eye specialist come in. They had me strapped in and ready to fly me out to Baltimore when the accident happened, but the specialist was at a seminar at Southern Maryland Hospital Center so he was transported to La Plata. I nearly freaked out, my mother almost passed out, and I was 17, so I can only imagine how boy felt. Just try to remain calm, if you get upset, he will have that much more anxiety over it.

 

[janey83]

yikes, best of luck -- hope everything goes well

 

[RoseRed]

I figure that it must have dropped in his eye last night when we were putting up the Christmas lights outside. It was small enough he didn't notice and it floated around under his eyelid all day irritating it. He must have rubbed it and ground it into his cornea.

I loked twice and didn't see it and the nurse at school looked twice and didn't see it.

Ouchie. :shiver: Chicklet once had something in her eye, but I was lucky enough to hold her down and wash it out with a bottle of saline.

Let me know if you need any help.

 

[Pete]

Ouchie. :shiver: Chicklet once had something in her eye, but I was lucky enough to hold her down and wash it out with a bottle of saline.

Let me know if you need any help.

I will. I suppose coming over and cradling my head in your lap and telling me everything will be ok is out of the question?

 

[RoseRed]

I will. I suppose coming over and cradling my head in your lap and telling me everything will be ok is out of the question?

Not tonight with all those stinky farts Tomorrow perhaps.

 

[mAlice]

Looks like a good time to say


GOOD NIGHT

 

[Dymphna]

Good luck, I'm sure it'll all work out. At worst he'll have to wear a cool eye patch for a few days. He can play pirate.