Sure, 4 a.m. dance parties are all fun and games until someone gets their eye poked. This we learned last night, or shall I say early this morning, when Monsieur Henry in a moment of sublime ball happiness - we were reading a book and it had pictures of balls - enthusiastically signed ball (we use the arm-throwing ball sign, in retrospect this seems a bad choice). And in a moment of mom is slow because it's 4am tiredness, his finger connected with my eyeball and it resulted in a corneal abrasion. A "pretty nasty scratch" according to the optometrist we saw this morning. Luckily the event came at the end of the party because I was able to put away the food, collect baby, change his diaper, turn off the lights, and return to bed without waking up pops. In two words, it hurts. But the doc okay'd the use of Vicodin - ah, sweet, sweet Vicodin - and since I am no longer incubating a human I have no qualms about using pain meds. Darr is on toddler and dog duty, earning him the Awesome Husband of the Week award, while I am sequestered in my dark room trying not to see. There's no eye patch but negotiations for parrot purchasing has begun and I've muttered more than one "argh" while stumbling my partially blind behind around the condo.Photo credit: www.eyedoctors.com
5 comments:
Ouch. How long does one have to be sequestered in the dark with a corneal abrasion?
Oh no! I hope it heals quickly. How scary!
Should heal within 24 hours. I would put the pain level at a 6 or 7 using the pain scale given to us when at the hospital for Henry's delivery.
Ahhh. That sounds horrific! I hope the Vicodin works for you. It never does a darn thing for me other than make me sleepy.
Ouch! Anything dealing with eyeballs freaks me out. Pain meds are the greatest. A bonus for Canada...over the counter! I'm allergic to the codiene in vicoden, but enjoy :)
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