Theo has sick-eye

I (Mama) never had conjunctivitis as a child so I thought that maybe my children could escape it too. No way. Theo woke up the other day with gunk in his eye, and slowly as the day went by, it got redder and redder, until finally he looked like he was in a boxing match (hence the inspiration for the picture.) He went to Nighttime Pediatrics, which is actually a terrible place to go, and people should only go if the case is straightforward and is not emotionally taxing. Ted and Theo spent two hours there waiting for them to fill a prescription. I think that may actually be worse than the pharmacy at the VA. When they got back, Theo said, "Mama, I have sick-eye."

Those eyedrops are the worst. He needs 3 drops per eye four times a day. Every single drop = at least 10 seconds of screaming with physical restraints.

And it hit me too that by having children, I am getting another 15-20 years of this. What I mean is, everytime someone gets sick, I get this terrible feeling that everyone in the whole house is in for it. It's such a big difference from before, when I would get a cold and maybe Ted would catch it or maybe he wouldn't, and certainly no one was going to come home with conjunctivitis. But kids have fluids everywhere and try as you might, you just can't chase after them with sanitizer all day. At Christmas time, I got the flu, and I hoped that by washing my hands no one else would get it. But one by one, everyone got it. Then there was that AWFUL GI bug that Theo brought home from daycare. We got a call that he was throwing up, so we took him home, and that night, one by one, we ALL threw up. That was some virus. Now I'm afraid that any minute, I'm going to notice that Ruby has pus coming out of her eye.