An Eye-full...

Christian works on campus buliding the play sets for those who didn't know. On Monday while working, he was using a router (it cuts holes) and he got wood splinters or chunks in his eye. And YES, he WAS wearing safety glasses. He tried to rinse his eye out, but he could still feel things in there. He kept working and by the time he came home, he was in a lot of pain. I made him go to an urgent care clinic. The doctor numbed his eyeball and then started digging around in there. It looked so painful but Christian kept saying, "This is so cool! I can't feel anything! But I can still see things!" The doctor couldn't see anything in there so then he put drops in that made his eye glow in the dark. He had me hold up a black light while he tried again to find what was hurting his eye. It scared me to look at him with a glowing eyeball. I pointed out a little chunk to the doctor and he took it out. There where tons of tiny little cuts all over Christian's cornia. He told us for the next 48 hours it might still feel like there's something in there even though everything was removed, due to the cuts and scratches the wood caused. So he prescribed him some eyedrops and we were on our way. On Tuesday morning his eye was swollen somewhat shut. It looked painful. He's all better now though! And he can see very well...he even drew himself a new tatoo yesterday.