Tear-jerker

My heart still sinks looking at these pictures. The Admiral hadn't been feeling well Saturday in that he threw up for the first time ever. Finishing off a night time bottle and...yea. I was shocked since he's never done that before but there wasn't a fever & he wasn't fussy. After the hubs came home from Priesthood session he wanted to take The Admiral's temperature, that's when he discovered his pink swollen eye. It's times like this that your parental feelings really spring up. My old anxiety attack issues started to resurface: fast heartbeat, feeling like there wasn't enough air and turning stomach. I went into my closet to cry for a few seconds and then pulled it together.

After calling his doctor's afterhours line (ER nurses), we needed to wait for a nurse to call us back. Just waiting. Luke held him in our front room (so he wouldn't mess with his eye) while I tried to hold it together and google similar situations. Thankfully nothing serious came up (pink eye, allergy, etc). After talking to a nurse it was determined it was conjunctivitis and they called him in eye drops. Finally after a dose of that & tylenol he was in bed at 11pm.
The next morning his eye was better but we discovered a rash on his stomach. Great! So after talking to the nurse again (pros for being sick on a weekend, mommy & daddy are both home...cons, no doctor offices are open!) we took him to an urgent care. The doc was stumped. Because the drops aren't oral and the hive-like rash was only on his stomach they weren't 100% sure what caused it. But we got new eye drops, medicine for the rash and some children's allergy tablets. The Admiral's eye & rash already look better and through it all he's still been his normal happy self.

Due to his never being sick it really freaked me out but it was such a comfort having Luke here, knowing he'd be able to give The Admiral a blessing (and me!) and having nurses available 24/7. Here's to The Admiral's health & 100% recovery!