Medical Issues
Yesterday was the medical problem day, and by the end I was exhausted.
Alesia came back from the pool on Wednesday with a horrible bloody place in the white of her eye. I looked it up on the computer and it’s called a something-or-other hematoma. Looks quite scary. However, it’s not serious. It’s like a bruise on the eye.
When Alesia got back from school yesterday she told Mother it was hurting, and the hematoma was spreading. So, I left work and took her to the eye doctor. She looked at the eye with that big light and reassured Alesia it’s just a hematoma, and said it will take a week or two to heal. She was very sweet to explain that. Alesia looked relieved.
I took both kids to get some frozen custard afterwards and Alesia wouldn’t take off her sunglasses. She looked like a celebrity in hiding.
We also ran by a little store in Tucker and bought a new bird feeder. We have an old tree stump in the back yard, and the aggressive squirrels knocked over the old bird feeder near the stump and broke it [the feeder, not the stump]. It was hanging from a shepherd’s crook, too. They climbed the crook like monkeys.
The funniest thing is that we have two corn plants growing below the bird feeder, where the corn I put out for the birds has dropped and sprouted. Mother said it won’t bear because it can’t cross pollinate, but it’s just funny looking out there and seeing it. If it does bear and the darn squirrels eat it, que sera sera. There’s another plant growing next to it that’s not a weed, but we can’t figure out what it is. That will be an interesting plant to watch, I imagine.
Towards the end of last night’s movie, Michael was cradling in the crook of his short arm the top of a prized china bowl that my mother got for a wedding present. It was odd looking, to say the least. Finally he admitted there was a painful burning sensation that was really bothering him, right near the amputation site. I got him an ice pack from the freezer for it. He had a hard tome going to sleep, even after I gave him Motrin. The orthopedist told me when the bone in that amputated arm grows, Michael will experience agonizing pain and then quickly need surgery, to shave down the bone. It appears the bone may be growing. I am wondering about maybe some nerve damage causing the burning sensation. I don’t know what can be done, though. If the pain and burning continues today I may have to try and take him to the orthopedist we saw at CHOA who specializes in limb difference kids. He was a very nice man. I so dread Michael going to the hospital. He has a morbid fear of them. I pray we can avoid that. It took two ice packs and Motrin to get Michael to sleep last night, then I couldn’t sleep for worrying about him. So I am wiped out tired today.
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