Last Wednesday morning (hours before the tornado hit) I noticed that Noah had a lot of yellowish-greenish goop in the corners on his eyes. School was out for the day and I was staying home with him anyway so I decided that I would just watch him and see how he felt throughout the day.
He acted fine, but then Thursday morning he developed a runny nose too. Throughout the day, the eye goop got worse and I assumed he had a little cold.
Friday morning when I went into his room to wake him up, the poor baby could hardly open his eyes. They were all swollen and goop-filled. Well our pediatrician’s office had no power due to the tornado and pretty much all of Tuscaloosa’s doctors were out in the field helping people in need. I didn’t want to take him to the emergency room because I knew how chaotic it was with all the injuries in town. So I decided to wait it out and see if he got worse. To my surprise, the goop lessened and he started acting like he felt better. Then Saturday night he woke up several times during the night crying-very unusual for him.
So after church and his afternoon nap, we decided to bite the bullet and take him to a doc-in-the-box.
Look at those pitiful red eyes! As it turns out, he had an ear infection. And because he is so allergy-prone, the infection travelled over to his eyes producing the goop AND breaking his eczema out all over his body!
He definitely didn’t suffer any lack of energy though, I can assure you!
Thankfully, after an antibiotic and an eye ointment he is back to his old self!
Speaking of his old self, everyone knows that Noah LOVES waffles. But I think we may have a new favorite food. Crackers. Or “cackas” as Noah calls them. He asks for them at every meal. He even pushes his waffle over and says “cackas?” in the mornings for breakfast! I love that little boy!!
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