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March 13, 2010
Think pink
No, I'm not pregnant.
No, really!
On Thursday, Owen had a green eye booger, followed by another green eye booger. I knew something was coming.
Friday morning, he woke up with one eye puffy and gooped shut. I started working a doctor's appointment into my day, but by the time the office opened his eyes were clearer and the puffiness less apparent.
At 11 on Friday, as my dad was preparing lunch so he and Katie could run over to the school to eat with Jamie, the nurse called. Jamie's eyes were goopy, and could I come get her?
The earliest appointment I could get was four hours out, by which time Owen's eyes were filled with green slime, and Jamie's were clearer, but she looked like she was just coming in from a hard night on the town, including possible illegal substances. A diagnoses of pink eye was no surprise.
Owen's 3am wake up scream was less expected. Poor kid woke up with his eyes stuck shut and was a little, uh, disturbed.
Luckily, a day and a half of eye drops has made all the difference. The down side is that I'm becoming a hypochrondriac, thinking that with every itch of my eyes, I'm being dragged down like a chubby, out-of-shape gazelle by the hyena of pink eye. And Katie has so far avoided any eye goo, but is instead running a fever and looking all wrung out. Is it possible to get pink eye of the whole body?
Posted by me at March 13, 2010 9:43 PM