Well, this will be post number 3 today. No ones read any of them, so feel free to scroll on down. Today is a weird day. Ok, on to the story. At Brighton's today she wrote about a scare she had with her son when he was around a year old. I commented I know what it's like, she says go write it. Ok, I will. Right here. Now. Sorry, needed some kind of humor. As always, my thoughts are rarely in any kind of order so bear with me, I'll try.
  When steven was around a year old, his eye swelled up. It was about half shut. Take him to doctor. Pediatrician looks at his eye. Hmm go to hospital he says, we need to do a cat scan on it. Why we ask? Well, need to know if the infection is behind the barrier in his eye. The doc called it cellulitis. Being no doc, I didn't really understand. We know what cellulite is, I have it on my legs, most of us do. In my terms he explained he has an infection under (on the inside) his eyelid. They need to find out if it is behind his eye. Why? Well if it is, he has Meningitis. We do know what that is. This stuff kills. If it was behind said barrier it was fairly likely he wouldn't survive. That stuff gets in the brain and adios! Apparently there is some kind of barrier, say, halfway across your eye as the depth goes. Think straight line. If the infection, bacterial, is in front of, it's ok. If it's behind, it's not ok. They took the cat scan and the radiologist at the local hospital wasn't sure. He's not a pediatric radiologist. My son and I went to Columbia Children's Hospital. They're great there. It was after hours so the pediatric radiologist there wouldn't take a look at the pic until morning. The pediatricians there didn't think so, but they weren't radiologists. They would make no definitive answers. Steven was put on the baddest dose of antibiotics I had heard of. This stuff could have made him sick from the side effects alone. But, if it was behind his eye, this could save his life. Well, not such a hard choice to make. By this time his eye was swelled completely shut. He could still see out of that eye though. His eyelid was not only swelled shut, it was swelled out, so there was a small space for him to see through. He would look up just to see me. He must have been the happiest baby in the pedes ward. The medicine and his eye being closed did not bother him one bit. He was crawling around, pulling himself to stand in the crib. Giggling, whatever. He didn't have any side effects from the antibiotics either. No diarheaa for my baby. In the morning the radiologist took a look at the whatever and said it was fine, the infection was only on the eyelid, no danger of spreading to where we didn't want it to go. We went home, happy as a clam. The only thing that happened with him because of it, is he's now extremely attached to his two blankies. They are must have items. I wish I had taken pics of his eye. He did look funny. Especially when it was shut, but he was still seeing with it. It was a funny contortion.
  As long as we're telling... And then there was the time mikel was around 3. Unbeknownst to me, he had popped the screen out of his bedroom window and threw his toys out, then his blankie and pillow out, and decided to follow them out of the window. Yes my 3yr old jumped out his bedroom window and I'm fairly sure he landed on the air-conditioner thing. Yes he went to the ER, had all the stuff. No breaks, no internal bleeding. Just a couple of bruises and scratches and Spongebob in his ear. He was particularly proud to have spongebob in his ear. First time he ever let anyone put that thingy in his ear without a fight. Oh and there was the time when I thought he was too little to get into my top cupboards and ate some sinus medication. Much more than he should have. Found out he didn't actually ingest as many as it appeared. I guess it was more fun to squeeze the stuff out of the capsules than taste it. Remember: just because it says child proof does not mean they cannot open it. He was 2 years old the first time I caught him opening my ibuprofen bottle. Well, it was the only time too. They are now all locked up with a zip-tie like baby proof cupboard lock. It's the only child-proofing lock things that my kids cannot open. Every other kind: we've tried them, my kids have opened them anyway. No matter what childproof thing you think will work, your kids will find a way. Rope with a crapload of knots has worked better for us.
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