First Trip to the ER

Warning: There is a lot of information in this post. I wanted to be able to remember everything years down the road.
Well, we had to make our first trip to the Emergency Department this past Friday night. Perry injured his eye with a stick while out on a walk right before bedtime. We aren't exactly sure what happened because neither of us was looking right at him when it happened, but we know that the stick he was holding had a little branch off of it and it was probably that branch that scraped his eye. All of a sudden, he started screaming and was covering his eyes while complaining about a bug in his eye. We were near my mom's house, so we went straight there to assess him. He was extremely upset (it didn't help that he was sick with fever that day) and refused to let us look at his eye. He wanted to just press it up against my chest. I hated knowing he was in pain. My mom brought us all home after a little while. Perry eventually calmed down, but he still wouldn't uncover his eye. He wanted something pressing/covering it at all times. After observing him for a couple hours and speaking with his doctor, we decided we better take him in to be examined. It was likely that he had a corneal abrasion, and without an eye exam we wouldn't know if it was worse. So, a little after 8, we headed to Sutton's Children's (my mom stayed at our house while Mills was asleep). Sweet Lainey called ahead and told them we were on our way. We were seen pretty quickly. They performed a slitlamp exam with fluorescein dye and were able to see the abrasion. It probably only took 1 minute to do the exam, but it felt like forever since we were having to hold our scared, screaming child down :-( We got home late, and Perry went straight to sleep. Surprisingly, he seemed to be completely better the next day. We were happy he had a quick recovery and that the injury wasn't worse.  Here are a couple pictures to document the ER visit. I took these after the exam and once we knew that it wasn't a severe injury. I just couldn't bring myself to take a picture until I knew he was going to be OK. The eye drops they use for the exam numb the eye, so he started feeling better after those were put in. You can see him holding lovey over his left face (the eye that was injured). Lovey is such a sweet comfort to him...I'm glad we had it with us!

Mae Mae brought Perry a new choo choo and a butterfly "bug" cookie the next day as a "get well" present. Thanks Mae Mae!