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Thursday, June 22, 2006
Yeah, I Know I Said I'd Post...
Well, we're back from Illinois. In fact, we got back Monday night, and I had a great post planned in my head. Then life happened.
Tuesday night, T1's eye got red and swollen. Thinking it was another allergy attack, I gave him the appropriate meds and sent him to bed. He woke me up several times during the night because he was hurting. Wednesday morning, I took him to the eye doctor, and he sent T1 to a corneal specialist. The corneal specialist looked around in his eye, and diagnosed a nasty bacterial infection (probably pseudomona) and put him on 2 different antibiotic eye drops, to be given hourly, staggered (that means one at the top of the hour, the other at the bottom, and repeat). During the night, they could be combined and just done once every hour.
This morning, we went back to the corneal specialist. The doctor was unable to really see into T1's eye because of all of the inflamation. He's sending him to a retinal specialist, and they'll take an ultrasound of his eye.
Yeah, I'm worried. A lot. I'll get around to the great post sooner or later. I just have other stuff on my mind right now.
UPDATE: Ultrasound was normal, so there's no damage to the retina. There will probably be some corneal scarring, but we won't know how much until the pseudomonas is taken care of. At least that's something...
FRIDAY UPDATE: Specialist said that T1's eye is starting to look a little better. And he can see more than clouds out of that eye. Still doing to hourly eye drops, but we're going in the right direction.
Tuesday night, T1's eye got red and swollen. Thinking it was another allergy attack, I gave him the appropriate meds and sent him to bed. He woke me up several times during the night because he was hurting. Wednesday morning, I took him to the eye doctor, and he sent T1 to a corneal specialist. The corneal specialist looked around in his eye, and diagnosed a nasty bacterial infection (probably pseudomona) and put him on 2 different antibiotic eye drops, to be given hourly, staggered (that means one at the top of the hour, the other at the bottom, and repeat). During the night, they could be combined and just done once every hour.
This morning, we went back to the corneal specialist. The doctor was unable to really see into T1's eye because of all of the inflamation. He's sending him to a retinal specialist, and they'll take an ultrasound of his eye.
Yeah, I'm worried. A lot. I'll get around to the great post sooner or later. I just have other stuff on my mind right now.
UPDATE: Ultrasound was normal, so there's no damage to the retina. There will probably be some corneal scarring, but we won't know how much until the pseudomonas is taken care of. At least that's something...
FRIDAY UPDATE: Specialist said that T1's eye is starting to look a little better. And he can see more than clouds out of that eye. Still doing to hourly eye drops, but we're going in the right direction.
