"I got a poke in my eye."

 

Last night while I was doing the dishes, I heard Guard screaming in the backyard.  Greg soon came in carrying Guard, who was covering his eye with his hand.  He kept yelling, "I got a poke in my eye!"  What happened??  Apparently, Greg and Guard were play

 

ing magic wands with sticks while jumping on the trampoline.  Umm...what part of that is a good idea?  It didn't end well.
For the rest of the night, Guard wouldn't open his eye, or even move his hand that was covering his eye.  He was whimpering all evening and had a hard time falling asleep.  This is not like Guard - he has a very high pain tolerance.  I knew we would be going to the doctor the next morning.
After visiting with the pediatrician for 30 seconds, he send us to a child ophthalmologist.  The pediatrician said he could see a scratch right across his cornea and he didn't even want to touch it - we needed the expert.  That didn't sound good to me and I'll admit, it made me nervous.
Luckily, we found Dr. Price in American Fork who squeezed us in that afternoon.  After taking a picture of his eye ball (that was about as much fun as it sounds like!), the scratch was very obvious.  It was huge!
Dr. Price seemed very unconcerned though.  He told Greg and I that eyes heal very well and quickly, especially in children, and he thought the scratch would be healed in a matter of a few days.  What a relief!  Guard got a band-aid on his eye in the form on a contact - he was very excited to tell Gavin he had a contact just like his.  We also left with instructions for eye drops four times a day.

Guard did so well getting his contact in and letting Dr. Price look at his eye.  The entire office was so impressed with how well he behaved while his eye was being examined.  He did so great, Mom and Dad took him out for his favorite ice cream - orange with rainbow sprinkles from Sub Zero.

We visited Dr. Price three more times before the contact came out.  Not going to lie - the eye drops were a huge pain.  It took at least two of us, sometimes three to hold Guard down to put them in.  Greg put one in and said it really did sting for about 30 minutes, so I can understand why Guard fought them.
At our last visit, Dr. Price, said all looks great and he healed completely.  Thank goodness!
No more stick magic wands!