Ahoy, matey!

Pretty rough day for ol' Reed-o yesterday. Back in the summer, he had a chalazion in his left eye, which is kind of like a pimple, but on your eyelid. That never quite went away completely, I think, and on Sunday it exploded into a huge red thing hanging from underneath his upper eyelid, crusty and gross (I'll spare you the picture of it).

Argh! Avast, back to
school with ya, 
middle school pirate! 

So on Monday we went to the pediatrician, who was perplexed, and sent us to an ophthalmologist the next day. He diagnosed it as a "pyogenic granuloma" and said yep, it needs to be cut off. Thank goodness he was able to do it right then, because I'm not sure I would have been able to get Reed back in the office again. 

I watched the whole awful thing – from the numbing shots (multiple) in his eye, which bleed A LOT, through to snipping the thing off and cauterizing the wound. I nearly tossed my cookies. It was painful for Reed, but he was super brave. And he got to wear an eye patch at school for the rest of the day, which he liked much better than having this gross thing hanging in his eye.

Hopefully this is the end of it! Mama can't take any more! LOL