So let’s start from the beginning.. Lilia started getting
bits of green gunk in the corner of one eye about a couple of months ago. I’d
wipe it and like an hour later the gunk would be back. As a child, and
embarrassingly enough a teen as well, I was prone to conjunctivitis. I had it
whenever I was run down or ill or stressed, etc, only recently have I not got
it during stressful times, illnesses, etc. Anyway, I automatically thought it
was conjunctivitis and started to bathe her eye in cooled boiled salt water.
Then my friend pointed out that it looked like Lilia had thrush in her mouth. I
am still to this day very grateful that she did point it out; I have never seen
thrush before so I would never have known any different – I just thought it was
dead skin on her lips. So I booked her a doctor’s appointment to get some
medicine for her so it could clear up. I figured while at the appointment I
could point out her eye to the doctor she was seeing. All the doctor said was
“oh, it’s sleep. Wipe her eyes when she wakes up in the morning.” So I
explained that it came back all through the day, not just in the mornings. She
was persistent that it was just sleep and said to bathe the eye if it keeps on
coming back.. It kept coming back so I kept bathing it. The doctor’s told me
again and again just to bathe it and I was worrying over nothing.. But come on.
A mother knows her baby, right? And I knew something else was up with her gunky
eye. Well, it started getting more gunky, so I bathed it again and all of a
sudden her eye got all red and bloodshot. It started to swell, too. The next
morning she woke up and her eye was completely stuck together, bless her.
Conjunctivitis. I booked her a doctors appointment for that day and waited to
take her to it. I didn’t wash or wipe her eye at all, so that they could see
just how bad it was. It just so happened to be the same doctor who I saw about
her thrush, and who said her gunky eye was nothing. She rolled her eyes when I
said I thought Lilia had conjunctivitis and checked her eye. She was quiet for
a while, before saying “yeah she has a spot of conjunctivitis”. I knew it. I couldn’t help but have a little
smirk on my face when the doctor frowned, knowing she’d been proven wrong. She
got prescribed some eye drops and within a couple of days her eye was better.
Her other eye started to gunk up so I used the drops on it once or twice to
prevent it from getting any worse. Her eye is starting to get gunky again (the
same eye she had conjunctivitis in) and I’m worried she’ll get the infection
again. I still have her previous eye drops but I don’t know if it’s safe to use
them and don’t really want to risk it. Once I’m sure it’s conjunctivitis I’m
not going to bother bathing her eye, I’m going to let the infection come up
quicker so that I can take her back to the doctors and hopefully get a fresh
batch of drops. I’m not sure if it is conjunctivitis this time around though, I have a feeling I may be
overreacting, ha ha.
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