Eye Trauma

So yesterday evening while I was at work, G.J. was upset about something and went to lay on his bed. He started screaming in pain, and Chris rushed in to see what had happened. G.J. was clutching his eye and screaming that it hurt!

This triggered some major anxiety in G.J. that we hadn't seen for awhile. He refused to let anyone look in his eye. He slept for a few hours, cried a lot, and Chris and I weren't sure what to do. When G.J. is in that emotional space you can't talk or reason with him. He is just panicked and unable to think clearly and calmly.

This morning the pain wasn't any better, and his eye was red and puffy from G.J. pressing on it. He spent the morning with us taking E.R. to her Shriners appointment. Then I had to stop by work to take care of something, and then we were finally able to get to G.J.'s appointment.

His doctor put some green dye in his eye and looked in it with a black light. She was pretty surprised and said she saw something pretty big on his iris. I could tell she was worried, and she left quickly to get him an emergency appointment with an opthamologist in the building. Another doctor came in to try to look in his eye, and by then I realized this might be serious. Both doctors quizzed him on what could have happened - saying that it looked like some sort of trauma. G.J. honestly had no ideas for them. He didn't know what had happened!

We went to grab some lunch before the next appointment, and Chris decided to come help. He met us and took G.J. to the appointment, since someone needed to feed J.T. who had been an amazingly good sport through all of this. We also had M.C. who needed to be picked up at school.

So G.J. saw the specialist who was able to get in his eye and remove a microscopic piece of white plastic tucked into his eyelid. It was scraping his eye every time he blinked! After the removal and some numbing cream, G.J. felt like a new man.

It will take a couple of days for his eye to be back to normal, but apparently eyes heal quickly...

This qualifies for our freaky family list of "What in the World?"