Jayden's Big Injury

You may not be able to see it in this picture without enlarging it...but look what happened to my baby's eye!!!

He woke up from a nap on Saturday and I noticed his eye was a little red. A little while later it was even more red and I realized there was a tiny scratch right there on his eye ball!! He must have done it during his nap.

I freaked out and called his doctor's office. It was a Saturday night so I knew I would just be getting the answering service.

While I waited for a doctor to call me back, Adam was consulting Dr. Google. He was reading out loud everything he found and I was getting really scared.

I started packing a bag to take to the hospital. All of a sudden my mommy packing skills kicked in. (I didn't know I had them.) That bag had everything we could possibly need if we had to spend hours in a hospital.

From everything Adam was reading, I was pretty sure Jayden was going blind as we waited for the call.

A nurse called just as I was thinking about the glass eye he would need.

She said if it happened during nap it was probably just a superficial scratch. She said we could call our doctor's office in the morning if it got worse overnight.

(One of the things she told me would be a sign of it getting worse was blurry vision. How in the world do you find out if your 4 month old has blurry vision? Ask him?)

By the morning, it was starting to look a little better.

By the time our pediatrician called us Monday morning to check in about what happened, I could barely see anything. By Tuesday, it was completely gone.

So....new moms worry a lot, huh?

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