Poor Hudson
This pictures does the whole eye thing no justice! It was so bad. I mean borderline emergency room at one point. It began with what I assumed to be pink eye. I'm not sure if it was ever actually pink eye or just severe allergies. I told the nurse my diagnosis over the phone and she just called us in the drops for pink eye. His eyes seemed to get better over about two days and then, at the end of day 2 they flared up again. After a doctor visit, I continued the drops but added allegra, steroids, and everything seemed to go away... not the end of the story... about 2 weeks later, I got Hudson from school. We ate lunch outside and then came inside to rest. I went in the kitchen and then just looked in on the boys and I had to do a double take. Hudson was rubbing his right eye very hard. I went over to him and his eye had swollen, underneath, to the size of a golf ball or what you might call a goose egg. HUGE! As I tried to calm down and get a better look I thought, "this is serious!" I called the nurse at first because I just wasn't sure what to do... go straight to her office or what? She did have us come right in and when she saw his eye, it shocked her. Dr. Resendez took Hudson to the other pediatrician in her practice and then came back. I sat there thinking, what in the world is going on. When she returned she told me she had never seem that type of swelling. She said the white part of his eye was swollen. When I looked at it my perspective was off, but she was right of course. The swelling included the whites of his eyes which raised slightly above the color center which was still flat. It scared me. We had to do steroids again, which I hate, and continue allegra and a new antihistamine eye drop. Just a couple weeks later, which was last week, and the week of Major's birthday, Hudson got bronchitis. Phew! I hope we're done for awhile!
