So Little E was just recovering from her parachuteless skydive off the jungle gym when I went and poked her in eye with an umbrella. That's what the nurse put in the computer, 'Dad hit her in the eye with an umbrella.' Before you get all bothered about abuse and such, let me set the scene for you.
Yesterday morning about 6:45 in the a.m., it was raining pretty hard. It was one of my wife's parents days to watch the kids. I've been driving my mom's car instead of my van because my wife's car is in the shop because of a blown head gasket. So anyhoo, I've got my boy in the house and have come back out to get Little E out of the car. She says that she wants me to use the umbrella so she doesn't get as wet. So I pop it open and have it resting over us using the roof of the car and the open door to hold it. I get her out of her seat and am turning her around, so she's facing away from me, when the umbrella starts to fall. My former cat-like reflexes grab for the umbrella, but because my hands are trying to hold on to my daughter, my arm goes out and hits the umbrella in the middle of the handle and flings it upward toward her head. It hits her in the eye with one of the metal prongs (which seems like a very major design flaw) and she starts crying because it hurts.
I get her into the house and look at her eye and don't see any blood or discoloration so I think that maybe it just hit her near the eye and she'll be fine in a bit. I get my hugs and hi-fives and head out the door to go to work. About 10, I get a call from my wife who is heading over to her parents because her mom is freaking out because she can't get Little E to stop crying. I get a call 20 minutes later telling me to come and get Little E because she's just sobbing non-stop. I go get her and bring her home at around 11:15 a.m. My wife gets her a doctors appointment at 2:50 that afternoon. When we get home, she says that she wants to watch Toy Story 2, but what she really wants is to listen to it because she won't open her eyes. She falls asleep a bit after the movie starts and stays down for a good hour and a half. Once she wakes up she has a snack and lays back down and sleeps for another hour or so. In between all this whenever she has to pee, I have to carry her to the bathroom because she won't open her eyes to see where she's going.
We get to the doctors and she's not thrilled to be there, but the doctor gives her an eyedrop that numbs her eye for a while so she opens it up and the doctor sees a small scratch on her cornea. She should be better hopefully tonight or tomorrow. Overall, she's not feeling well because she's had a nasty head cold for the past few days to go along with this new injury. But I'm hopeful that she'll be fine again soon.
On a lighter note, part of my job is to type up reviews that librarians write up for books that they read. I just got another doozy and thought that I'd share it with you.
I don't know how well you can see this as I've discovered that I'm not a great photographer with my phone, but the librarian has misspelled 'intelligent'.And people wonder why our kids don't get a good education.
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