Pink Eye?? - Monday, January 28, 2008

Daddy freaked out the other day because I had a big mucousy eye booger. Mommy assured him it was perfectly normal - she gets them all the time. But then last night Mommy started getting worried because I was getting a lot of them in my left eye. During the first few hours of the morning, Mommy kept wiping them away, but my eye kept making more. Finally she called the doctor's office about it. They said it might be pink eye, so we had to go see Dr. Tuch right away. Since my eye wasn't actually pink or red at all, she said it's probably just a blocked tear duct, which is very common for people my age. The tear duct is supposed to drain away my tears, but if it's blocked, then my eye will produce that mucousy discharge. Mommy and Daddy will massage my tear duct to help clear it out.