An ER Visit

Well, we knew this day would come sooner or later. Dan had his first ER visit. Dan is definitely our danger boy. He often leaps before thinking about what he is doing and it is only because of his very attentive guardian angel (or two or three), that he has managed to keep from major harm.

Wednesday evening he was playing in the woods behind the house and stab his eye with a stick. I am not one to run to the doctor's for every little thing and except for Bessie needing stitches after a biking accident, we have avoided the ER to date, but Dan's eye was actually bleeding, not the surrounding area, but his eye. This seemed like something that could be more serious. We called the Ped and he agreed, we should took Dan to the ER.

We were there for two hours, which by ER standards is not too bad. Everyone thought he was so cute (which he is). They stained his eye and checked for bleeding behind the eye and for corneal scratches. He was so good and cooperative. All was negative. We were relieved. Dan was exhausted. We got home at 11:30 pm, way past his bedtime.

We will hope and pray that it will be a while (or maybe never) that we will need to make another visit to our local ER.

Dan looks pretty glum here, but he was just really tired

Not the best picture, but you can see how red his eye is