Eye Trouble

Yesterday Emily was laying on the floor playing with a small pine cone {that she had decorated for father's day} and watching a little TV when she walked over to my mom and told her she had something in her eye. I had her come over to me and when I looked in her eye I say a very big {about 1/4 th of an inch}  piece of the pine cone in the lower part of her eye. I tried to get it with my finger, it was so big I thought it would come right out but when that didn't work I went upstairs for a q-tip and gave that a try. As soon as I touched it to the piece of pine cone Emily let out a blood curdling cry {and didn't stop crying for quite some time} and scrunched her eyes shut. I immediately scooped her up and gave her a big hug and grabbed my cell phone and called her doctors office. Once I talked with the advise nurse she told me that they usually have people go to an eye clinic or the emergency room. That did it for me, I headed for the car with Emily in my arms grabbed something for Em to snuggle with and called Aimee to see if she would pick up Sarah from school {this was all happening right as I needed to leave to pick up the big kids from school} and take her to gymnastics but as I was calling her I remembered that she was a nurse and works for an eye doctor. She volunteered to help but couldn't remember if she had some numbing drops in her lab coat pocket at home so I opted for the emergency room. I called Terry and told him what was going on but he was at Meridian Park and I was already headed to Willammette Falls so he decided he would call the ER and give them a heads up that Em and I were on our way. When I got there I walked in the doors and a nurse was standing in the doorway to the back rooms when I got there and she took us right back {not a single piece of paperwork was filled out} and put us in a room. Shortly after that the ER Doc came in and put some numbing solution in Emily's eye {a nurse and I had to hold her down while she screamed VERY LOUDLY and the doctor put the stuff in her eye}. Once the numbing solution went to work she was a new person and didn't even flinch when the doctor used a cue tip to get the pine cone piece out of her eye. We were seriously in and out in about 10 minutes - one of the perks for the long hours and hard work Terry puts in at that same hospital. 

For the next few days Emily told everyone that she saw that she had eye surgery {no matter how many times I told her that she didn't}. One of her friends actually did have eye surgery and she had a play date with her several days after the surgery but you could still see blood in her eyes and they were swollen so Emily and I had talked about how brave and strong her friend was to go through the eye surgery and it apparently made an impression. Apparently Emily's own trauma {although small in the 'big picture' of things} was big enough for her to think she had been as brave as her friend.