T's Eye

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Thursday I was in my end-of-the-year review with the principal. (She gave me the highest rating - Clearly Outstanding - yea!) She was just telling me how the teachers had a pretty high average absence rate at our school and we needed to watch that . . . when the secretary started pounding on the office door saying "Mary's son has been in an accident - the school is on the phone!" I picked up the phone and it was his school's secretary saying . . "I know the nurse already called - but his eye looks really bad. I would take him to the dr right away. He took the ice pack off his eye and it looks like it's drooping down."

I had no clue what she was talking about - the nurse hadn't called. I told my principal to add this to the list of absences . . . (great timing huh?!?!?! - We laughed about that later.) - and then I walked out of her office and flew over to the school.

Turns out some little punk (ok - so he's probably not . . .) had one of those hard rubber bouncy balls and was throwing it like a baseball pitcher and threw it right into T's eye. It hit his eyeball - and blurred his vision in his left eye. His eyelid was a little drooped.

I called Eric (my broinlaw who's an er doctor) to see where to go and we headed to the eye doctor. Turns out - he didn't take medical insurance - so he referred us to one who did - who then reffered us to a medical eye specialist. He spent quite a while looking at T's eye with different types of equipment and determined that his eyeball was a little swollen and bruised - but that it was a very healthy eye and he should be fine in time. He has a recheck with the specialist later this week and hopefully his vision will be clear by then.

T was a real trooper. I was so proud of him. He was really fascinated by the equipment the eye doctor used and had a lot of questions for him. Once the initial panic wore off - I really enjoyed spending the afternoon with T! :o)