we had gone back to the house after lunch at wendy's because playland wouldn't be open for about an hour and that way i could feed manning at the house instead of trying to use a restaurant highchair (they are usually backless and he can't sit that well yet). i noticed a little goop in one eye, nothing too unusual, but worth watching since madelyn just had pink eye.
he was asleep while we were at play land, but when he woke up there was more in his eye. since it was a friday afternoon, i didn't want to take any chances and called the doctor's office for an appointment. they asked if i could be there in 30 minutes. i didn't dare turn it down. so off we raced to the car, called madelyn's school to say that we were on our way to get her, signed her out early since it was close to the end of the day and i would never make it to the bus stop in time and headed to the doctor's office. nana stayed in the car with the kids while they watched a movie since maddux had fallen asleep and i took manning in.
they weren't convinced it was pink eye since he also had a pretty bad cough too, but she went ahead and wrote me a prescription since we were heading into the weekend and places like cvs won't see such a young baby. she said that if i had to wipe his eye every 10 minutes or so to start the drops. by the time we got home he had goop draining out of both eyes and i started him on the eye drops.
now i don't know if you have ever had to give a 5 month old eye drops, but it is next to impossible. he fought them so much that matt had to help me hold him down. it was awful but it would be worse for him to wake up with crusted eyes that he couldn't open and wouldn't want wiped.
two down, two to go? love.
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Oh, yes, little ones and eye drops definitely don't mix. Hope he's feeling better. I'm impressed you were able to get in so quickly on a Friday afternoon.
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