We are grateful for eyes

Today we had some friends over. The little boys were digging in the dirt with shovels. Tyler was standing too close leaning over one boys back, and when the little boys shovel came up... it scratched right down Tyler's eyeball. The shovel was filled with dirt, so my initial reaction was get the dirt out, I noticed the spot right where the shovel had hit his eye but that was all.

My friend looked at Tyler's eye and noticed more.

The shovel had scratched away part of the clear coat on top of the colored part of his eye. Our optometrist wasn't in today, family emergency, the optometrist down the street from them had just relocated, but my pediatrician would squeeze us into his packed day.

He said it was the worst abrasion he had seen on an eye. even showing me it (they put a stain in his eye and used a florescent light to see the scratch). It was big, ugly, and still had dirt under the eye flap. About the size of the top of my pinky in length and width.

So we got some medicine, some tylenol and some love and hopefully things will improve. Today but more so tonight-- was pretty rough!