I stopped blogging about pink eye because I was frightening away loved ones. Really. Our house is not a disgusting, festering cesspool of ocular bacteria. I swear! But Charlie continues to have snot blobs in his eyes. Two weeks ago I finally took him to the eye doctor.
Have I mentioned how much I love Charlie's eye doctor? Dr. Bhatt is her name.
Dr. Bhatt said "He does have a little bacteria in his right eye" and prescribed a drop called Tobradex or something like that. Dr. J. had wanted to prescribe this at one point, but I made him give me Augmentin because I was going mental. Dr. Bhatt said to give him this for a week, then do nothing for a week, and then come back. "I would say this might be happening because he can't close that eye, so his cornea might be getting dried out, but his cornea actually looks pretty good," she said.
We followed her instructions, and Charlie continues to have snot blobs. In fact this morning he even had a little flakey crust on his gorgeous lashes. "What if it's not pink eye?" Julie said. "What if it's just snot?" I liked this idea very much. And then I began thinking: what if it's all connected to the extra ear canal and the angry red bulge and all that? Aren't your eyes and ears and sinuses are connected somehow?
Well today we went back to Dr. Bhatt and she pronounced Charlie pink eye free. I jumped up and hugged her. "Since he cannot close that eye, there is not a normal flow of tears, and the eye produces that pustulent discharge," she said. "It's actually helping to keep his cornea moist." I don't have to give him any medicine. He is not contagious. All I have to do is wipe off the snot and go.
When I told Dr. Bhatt about my unified theory of pink eye slash ear bulge etc., she shook her head. "Totally separate," she said.
Charlie lined up Dr. Bhatt's Woody, Buzz, Bo Peep, and Spider-Man figurines and then we said goodbye.
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