Last night was an eventful night...

It started off a little before 5pm I decided that I needed to call the eye doctor about Garret’s eye. It had begun to get red on the inside of his right eye (which is the part of both of his eyes that was red from his surgery) and he had a white/blue bump in the same area. I was told to call back in about an hour because the office that his doctor works in was closed for the holidays (which I knew) and that if I called back after normal clinic hours I could talk to the on call ophthalmologist and maybe save ourselves a trip to the ER. Kris was not concerned about it to begin with because he could not see the bump. We decided to keep our plans to go out to dinner. When we got home the kids took a bath and Kris was finally able to see the bump. So we called Primary Children’s Hospital to talk to the on call ophthalmologist. They had an issue getting the page to go through to her, but once she received it she called us immediately. She discussed what we were seeing in detail with me over the phone and decided that she wanted to examine Garret’s eye.

Thankfully we have some great neighbors that were willing to watch Kayleigh for us because we knew it would be really late when we got back home. So we dropped Kayleigh off and drove to PCH. We were lucky and the doctor was ready for us when we arrived at the office, but Garret was not a very cooperative patient. I couldn’t blame him because it was over an hour after is bedtime. She was a really nice doctor but she was not his normal doctor, so after she examined Garret she called his regular ophthalmologist to see what he recommended. They decided that it is probably the end of a stitch coming through his eye, so we are back to giving him his antibiotic eye drops 4 times a day and his Dr wants to see him next week. I am not sure was will happen when he sees him next week, but if it gets worse we are suppose to take him back to PCH.

Primary Children’s Hospital is a great hospital for kids because that is all that they see (the adult hospital is right next door), but the downfall is that it is about an hour drive each way from our house. It is not fun to make the drive, but I am very thankful that we have such a great children’s hospital in driving distance from us. We had the opportunity to see a different DR closer to our house for Garret’s eyes, but we chose to make the drive to have the best Dr for him.

After we got back to town we dropped Garret’s RX off at Walgreens and picked Kayleigh up. Kris dropped the kids and I off at home and went back to get the RX, only to find out that Tri-Care would not cover it. This did not make sense because I actually got the exact same RX at the beginning of November from Walgreens and Tri-Care covered it. I called Tri-Care after we got the kids in bed and they were looking into it when our power went out.

With the power going out Kayleigh was almost asleep, but the boom of the power going out and then silence woke her up and caused her to panic. So we got her calmed down and finally got her back into to bed. I gave the kids lots of extra blankets because when the power goes out the heat also go out. I did call the power company and they were not sure what caused the outage, but they already had crews on the scene. They estimated that it would be back on at 2am. We set the alarms on our phones to wake us up in the morning and went to bed after midnight. The power did come back on at 4am. The temp had only gotten down to 65, so it wasn’t too cold in the house and the heat immediately came back on.

Needless to say we are very tired this morning. I don’t see us making it until midnight tonight, but we are supposed to go to a friend’s house for dinner tonight. I think Kris has already told them that we will not be staying until midnight, because of the kids, but now I am sure we will not be and we will probably be asleep at our house as well.