We had a bit of a scare last night…

We had a bit of a scare last night. An unfortunate string of events lead to an evening where my husband and I weren’t sure if we were going to end up in the emergency room…

Lennox has been swimming every day. Lots of chlorine, opening his eyes to see where he is swimming and learning to be safe and comfortable in the water. He is a kid who never wants to get out of the pool. When his swim lesson was over, I dried him off and was trying to dry his hair when he started crying and said I scratched his eye. Of course my stomach dropped. I was upset that I had hurt his eye. I think when I was trying to dry his hair his eye was open and the towel brushed his eyeball. #momfail 😏 Once it stopped watering, he seemed OK and was laughing with his friend Leo. So I thought there was no issue. We got in the car and started to drive home. All of the sudden he starts screaming again, “My eye, my eye!” So I pull over, get in the backseat with him and he’s holding his other eye and saying he scratched it with the book he was reading. I happened to be on the phone with my mom and she said try and flush it with cold water. That helped a lot and once again (this eye) stopped watering so we drove home.

Len is is happy. He’s goofing around. All seems well…I’m giving him a shower and soap gets in his eye. He’s wailing. I grab some eyedrops and try to flush it out. All he wanted to do was stand under the water. So after about 10 minutes he calmed down so I got him out of the shower and dressed. Again, he seemed to be fine and my goal was to feed him dinner and get him to bed early. So while I finish making dinner my husband is reading to Lennox and all of a sudden he starts screaming about his eye again. Not the one that I scratched after swim, but the one that he poked with his book AND got soap in. My husband and I could not console him. I tried to flush it with more eyedrops but that didn’t help. Then we tried to flush it with water. We put a cold compress on it and he calmed down for a little bit. By this time my husband and I are contemplating going to the ER…we decide to give it some time and see if it gets any better. By now Lennox is sitting in his chair at the table and I’m standing there holding him while his eyes are closed and he’s drinking his milk. I’m eating standing up because he won’t let me stop holding (which as a mom, melts my heart and breaks it at the same time.) A few minutes later I hear Lennox’s breathing get deeper. He’s snoring. He drops his milk cup on the floor. This sweet little boy has fallen asleep sitting up while we are holding each other. I pick him up, sit down at the table and finish my dinner while he sleeps in my arms. It reminds me of when he was a tiny baby and all the meals I ate with him sound asleep in my arms.👼🏼 For those few minutes we all sat there in silence. The only sound was his gentle snoring…

I carried Lennox upstairs and my husband and I put him in bed. He stirred a little bit but sleep seems to be exactly what he needs. Lennox slept for 12 hours and woke up happy as a clam. I didn’t mention his eye because I wanted to see if he would, and about 10 minutes later he said, “Mommy my eyes doesn’t hurt anymore.” And then he said, “last night was a bad night, wasn’t it?” Oh sweet Lennox, I love you so…I’m honestly amazed at how calm I was last night. Lennox was in a lot of pain and that was scary, but my husband and I both stayed calm, we followed our instincts and we are so relieved that Lennox’s pain was temporary. 🙏🏻 I praise all of you parents out there who have children with illnesses, temporary or chronic. You are superstars. You are SUPERHUMAN. Your children are so blessed to have you as their parents…

If I had only know about these 30 baby MUST HAVES when Lennox was a baby some situations may have been so much easier. Sharing because we can all use a little extra guidance!