It’s a Corneal Abrasion

While I was quarantined at home with Jude today, Andy was anywhere but home — first at church and then at the Minnesota State Fair with his brother, future sister-in-law and little Levi.  Levi loved getting some good attention and especially enjoyed the bumper boats and the John Deer tractor trike.  Jude’s eyes were not getting better and my mom told me a really scary story about a cousin who almost lost his vision from an eye infection so I was scared right into the ER with Jude and Asher in tow late this evening.  We learned that having a child with only half a head of hair and grabbing a mask and saying he is suspected of having whooping cough gets you to the front of a 25 person ER line.  They wanted him out of that ER so he wouldn’t get the other kids sick.  But, that just got us to a room and then we had a 2 hour wait while Jude enjoyed the movie Spy Kids.  After lots of waiting, the doctor came in.  She told Jude she wanted to put dye in his eyes and he told her he didn’t want dye in his eyes and that she was trying to “trick” him when she asked him to move his arms away from his eyes.  She then needed to get some backup to help me hold him down kicking and screaming while she put in dye in his eyes so she could check for corneal abrasion.  The doctor confirmed corneal abrasion so Jude was prescribed an eye drop to take in both eyes for the next week or so.   Jude said he had thrown the sand up in the air, “not realizing it would go in [his] eye.”  So, Jude has learned a good lesson about the dangers of a sandbox.