Eye of the Tiger

I thought that I should update those who don't already know. Little E's eye is better and my wife's car is back in the shop today. Little E had another adventure the night that I last posted as she went into the emergency room due to the eye that was poked swelling up quite a bit. This worried us enough to call the advice nurse who told us to get her into the ER. So a four and a half hour trip later, she came home feeling a little better with a bottle of Tylenol with Codine, but still swollen and with instructions to get an appointment for the next day, which was Friday.

So Friday she got an appointment at 10 in the a.m. and I took another day off work to take her. Her eye seemed to be getting better and while we were getting ready to leave for the doctors I got her to open it. I'd given her some of the Tylenol earlier that morning and she must have felt well enough to finally give it a shot. That was a half-hour before her appointment. We got to the doctor and now that she could see again she was pointing out all sorts of things to me in the waiting room. Like the color of the chairs (red and green) the pictures of flowers on the wall, and the really big belly on the lady just a few seats down. I think the actual quote was, "Daddy, we're sitting on red chairs, that lady is sitting on a green chair, and she has a really big belly." I don't think the really big belly lady heard her because she didn't move, of course she did have a really big belly and it may have been to much for her to swing her head around.

The doctor said that it was probably just swollen because she had been rubbing her eye. So Little E got herself an eye patch. An eye patch to keep her from rubbing her eye. It was like when they give dogs those cones around their necks so they won't scratch or bite their stitches. Same thing. She spent the rest of that day actually watching movies and resting. And the next day she was almost completely better and now she's fine.

My wife's car was fixed from it's major problem and now has a minor problem that may or may not be related to the first problem, it's in the shop right now, and I'm waiting to hear what's wrong.


In other good news, (actual good news) Big T was offered and accepted the role of reader of the Little League Pledge on opening day for the league. He read it along with a little girl from another team and did great. I didn't know how he would do with something like that. But he was fine in front of the big crowd. I was one very proud papa, I tell you what.