A Trip to the Doctor

On Wednesday, I let Christopher take his very first shower with me. He decided that he wanted to hold Daddy's soap (a bar of SafeGuard soap). I thought it would be funny to see IF he could hold the soap. Well, he had no problems taking it from me, but IMMEDIATELY went to rub his eye. It was like slow motion: him moving his hand toward his eye and me saying, "NO!" and trying to stop him. I was unsuccessful, though, and he got soap in his eye. Of course, it burned, but I flushed it and doctored him up and he was fine within a couple of minutes. Needless to say, he won't play with Daddy's soap anymore. ;)

Later that evening, I noticed that his top eyelid looked slightly swollen. I just figured it was still a bit aggravated from the soap in his eyes, so didn't think much of it. When he woke up Thursday morning with it still swollen, though, I called his pediatrician's office to ask for advice. I was told that not much could be done and to flush again and use cold compresses. Except right after naptime, it stayed about the same the rest of the day. However, when he woke up this morning, his eye was nearly swollen shut, so I called his pediatrician's office once again and made an appointment for this morning. Thankfully, they had an 8:45 slot open, so we were still able to make our park playdate.

He's going through this phase of being terrified of doctors, dentists, exterminators who come to our house and strangers in general, so he totally freaked out once we got into the waiting room of the doctor's office. He cried/whimpered the entire time until Dr. Tammy started looking for Diego in his ears. That seemed to pique his interest and calmed him down. It was then that Dr. Tammy was able to get a good look at Christopher's eye. She then realized that what was wrong wasn't irritation from the soap, but a stye! Poor thing! He claims it doesn't bother him, but when you're eye is swollen so much with a little red bump on your eyelid, how can it NOT bother you??? I think he just didn't want me taking him to the doctor! LOL! ;-) So, we came home with a sample of antibiotic eye drops to put in his eye (1 drop 3x a day) and instructions to alternate cold and warm compresses. It should go away within 5-7 days.

Here are a few pictures of his boo-boo (it's his right eye):

Oh, and he now weighs 27.8 lbs!!! So, that's the news from our house!