Our Start to 2010

Our new year started out with a bang. Saturday evening we noticed Cooper's right eye was leaking. No big deal at the time, I thought maybe he scratched it our got something in it. We got him up for church on Sunday morning and it was all but swollen shut and had crusted (I know, it's gross) over. We get him cleaned up and call our 24 hour line through the pediatrician's office. They recommend getting him seen within 24 hours. I should have went with my gut and just waited until Monday but we went ahead and headed to the immediate care center. I say went with my gut because when Cooper was 3 1/2 months old they failed to diagnose a double ear infection. The only reason we were even there in the first place was because it was a Saturday, we had 6-8 inches of snow on the ground and he had spiked a 104 temp. Needless to say I don't like the place. This time it wasn't as bad they check him over and give us two prescriptions; an eye drop and oral antibiotic. Of course the doctor struggles to even write the prescription because he can't figure out how much to give with his weight. Steve & I get in the car and both agree that we will not fill them and give Dr. Howell a call in the morning.

Monday morning we wake and up and it's not quite as bad as the day before but still bad enough to call and make an appointment. So after another co-pay and wait in a dr's office we get to see Dr. Howell. She thinks it's a viral infection and just wants to treat it first with a drop before we go with another oral antibiotic, which he was just on less than a month ago for a sinus infection. She did say the original prescriptions weren't awful, but the eye drop would have burned. Like toddlers don't already just love eye drops

This is him after he woke up from a nap today. Not quite as bad as Sunday morning but worse than this morning. If you enlarge it you can see how it dried up around the eye. It's amazing how it doesn't seem to bother him at all, he was still running around like always.

This is what he looked like after we cleaned it out, still swollen and red.Once Steve got home we had our first round of eye drops. We have to do it three times a day. First we practiced on George

Then we had to practice on Mr. Potato Head

Finally we practiced on Mommy Then came the real deal. Don't worry, we didn't video tape to show the world our son screaming and crying... it wasn't pretty.
This was taken after the drops, poor kid can't even open his eye.

But don't feel too sorry, he got chocolate and watched Curious George.

*** A side note- round 2 went MUCH BETTER!!!!!