Torn Cornea

Monday before last, Cole and I were at work. I had just finished feeding him his breakfast and was washing out his bowl. Next thing I know, he backed right up to a table behind him and pulled down a control board (a small circuit board that goes inside of the machines that we manufacture) onto his head . As much as I can figure, it 1st poked him in the head and then flipped over and slid down his face and some part of it poked him in the eye. He was screaming like a banshee and it worried me that he didn't stop crying when I picked him up. I looked at his face and he wouldn't (couldn't) open his right eye. I held him for a few minutes and eventually he calmed down and was able to open his eye. Here's what he looked like soon after (I just happened to bring my camera to work this day):


Since he was able to open his eye, I didn't take him to the doctor. Gampa helped make him feel better.


Nothing cheers my boy up like a ride on the forklift with Guy.



He tried to have fun:(



Sad little wave...he's a trooper.


He decide it would make him feel even better if he drove it himself.



That's more like it:)



Happy squinty boy.


I put him down for his first nap and when he woke up his eye was a little gooey. I didn't freak out because I figured his eye was just flushing itself out. After his second nap, his eye was practically glued shut. Time to go to the doctor. I called his ped's office and they said a nurse practitioner could see him. He couldn't keep his eyes open when we were outside in the sun, it was too sad. So we get to the office and they take him back pretty quick. A girl takes his vitals and jots down how and what happened. The nurse comes in soon after and is reading the chart. She starts talking to me like I am being an overreacting first time parent. She was nice but she was saying things like, "Sometimes when you get poked in the eye it hurts and I'm not sure if he was poked in the eye because it is not red.". I explain that I'm positive that something happened to his eye and explained again about the eye goo. She pretty much humors me and says she will heck for tears in the eye. They put flourescent drops in his eye, turned off the lights and held a black light up to his eye. The nurse says,"Uhhh...Ohh...well...he does have a tear in his cornea...huh.". Yeah, that's right...a mama knows. She put antibiotic drops and an antibiotic ointment into his eye. She said that tears heal very quickly, that he would feel better in 24 hours and it would be healed within a couple of days. I Googled it when I got homeand found out that corneal tears don't leave a scar. If they did, we would all be blind. Your corneas get scratched multiple times throughout the day and usually heal overnight. The sun bothered his eyes tremendously for a few days but he's all better now.