Sniffles and tears

Luke had his appointment with the eye specialist yesterday. At his four month appointment with the pediatrician the doctor commented on his eyes possible looking a little crossed and told us to keep on eye on if it looked like it was getting worse. After about a month we did think it looked worse so I scheduled an appointment with the doctor she recommended. My appointment was at 1:20 in the afternoon and after running late because I was waiting for a train and fighting traffic I called ahead to the sitter asking her to have Luke ready in his car seat because I’d be there in 5 minutes. When I got there, she told me he hadn’t eaten since 8:30 that morning because he had a long nap. Oh no! 3 ½ hours ago! I knew he’d be starving but luckily he fell back asleep until we got to the doctor’s office. The doctor was running late and he was hungry but they let me use an exam room so I could feed him in privacy. You’d think that after being fed and burped he’d be satiated and quiet, right? NO! He screamed. He snotted. He threw up. He peed. I changed him. I walked him. I rocked him. I bounced him. I made silly faces at him. I repeated the walking/rocking/silly faces and any other soothing thing I could think of for an hour. I finally went to see an assistant at 2:20. She gave him an exam and drops to dilate his eyes and told us we’d need to wait 30 minutes for them to dilate. He was fussy during the exam and just as fussy (if not more so because of the drops) afterwards. He finally exhausted himself enough to fall asleep for a whopping 10 minutes. And then we waited for the doctor and I rocked and walked and hummed and tried to soothe. We finally saw the doctor who gave me the wonderful news that no, he’s not cross-eyed but yes his tear ducts are blocked. I was instructed to put pressure in the ducts and drain them and irrigate them with saline drops 2-3 times a day. If he still has the blocked tear ducts at 10 months old he recommends doing a procedure to fix it. Luckily when we got back in the car he slept so there was no more screaming baby.

I think he has a slight cold. No fever but some coughing and sneezing and oh, the snot. The snot is so gross. I know I have years of snot ahead of me but it is seriously pretty disgusting.

Silly me thought that I’d have so much time after the doctor’s appointment to run errands, relax and maybe even take a nap. HA! That was a silly idea. I dropped Luke off with the sitter at 5:00 so I could take advantage of an hour and go look at a car I liked. Which was another waste of time. I finally got home at 6:30 and he was cranky – AGAIN. He wouldn’t eat his peas (and I don’t blame him. Have you smelled that stuff? EWWW!) so after more fussing, I put him to bed at 7:30 and he slept through the night. I’m thinking he must be fighting a cold because a) he slept SO much and b) he is such a cranky baby.

Here’s hoping he’s in a better mood this evening and that he eats dinner tonight. I’m going to see if he likes sweet potato. Yummy mashed up sweet potato!