Patches

My poor bean. Last night when I picked Emmelia up from karate (SIDE NOTE: She earned her first "stripe" on her belt! Woo Hoo! She got it for learning her first form - step punches), I noticed the sclera of her eye was red and she was rubbing at it a lot. Come to find out there had been an incident involving a stick being thrown at her during her daycare class field trip to the park earlier in the day. Having experienced something very similar when I was in 4th grade, I immediately became concerned about a scratched cornea.

We stopped at the Urgent Care before picking up Maura and the doc stained Emmelia's eye and looked at it under a black light - sure enough, we both saw two little scratches, plain as day. Luckily, the scratches didn't look deep and the cornea heals itself very quickly. Emmelia had to wear an eye patch overnight, but was able to discard it today (for which she was very grateful). I'm just glad the damage wasn't worse. The doc did check her vision and it was still at least 20/20, so that is good. Here's a photo of poor little "Patches" (a nickname she didn't appreciate too much last night, but thought was funny this morning):
We put the stickers on the ugly patch ourselves - and that helped Emmelia feel better about it. she wasn't smiling before that, I can assure you. Maura thought it looked like so much fun to put stickers on your face, that she did this:
Hee!

Well, on tap today is Arabic class and studying about the interaction of radiation with matter, so I'd better get to it.