Healthwise, that is. First, difficult child came home a couple of days ago from work with a black eye. She had been reaching up for a bottle of color at the salon and she knocked over another bottle that came crashing down and hit her in the eye. By the next day, it was a true shiner. Everyone keeps asking who hit her.
Then, today, difficult child came home from work and said, "Look at my other eye. It is really red." It looked really bad and I thought it could be viral pink eye since she didn't have any discharge. I offered to take her to the doctor but is was already 3:30 so she said she wanted to wait and see if it was better in the morning.
She came back into my bedroom later and said that it was hurting and was especially sensitive to light. At that point, I started googling and found that it sounded like something called Iritis which is an inflammation of the middle level of the eye around the iris. It said to seek medical attention immediately. So off we went to an urgent care center (it was now 6:30 so our regular doctor was closed).
Of course, the urgent care doctor cost twice as much as our regular doctor. $125 later, she comes out to tell me that she has . . . drumroll please . . . Iritis. I should just get my medical degree. She had told the doctor what I thought she had and the doctor told her that I was right but that they wouldn't tell me since he was 55 years old and he still hated it when his mother was right. Jeez . . . a difficult child doctor!!
So he dilated her eye and put drops in it and covered it with a large bandage which she is supposed to wear until tomorrow. He said she could wear an eyepatch tomorrow if the light still bothers her eye. She said that would be just what she would need at the salon when she goes to color someones hair. She is supposed to put steroid drops in her eye twice a day until the inflammation and redness goes away.
I am concerned because I have spent time tonight researching Iritis and don't like what I have found. It seems like it can become a chronic problem with frequent flares. It can also be tied to autoimmune diseases and other medical conditions. Of course, she doesn't have insurance so we really can't have any testing done at this point.
Some people only have it happen once so maybe she will be one of the lucky ones. Here she is really trying and then this has to happen. You can guess who paid the $125.
~Kathy
Then, today, difficult child came home from work and said, "Look at my other eye. It is really red." It looked really bad and I thought it could be viral pink eye since she didn't have any discharge. I offered to take her to the doctor but is was already 3:30 so she said she wanted to wait and see if it was better in the morning.
She came back into my bedroom later and said that it was hurting and was especially sensitive to light. At that point, I started googling and found that it sounded like something called Iritis which is an inflammation of the middle level of the eye around the iris. It said to seek medical attention immediately. So off we went to an urgent care center (it was now 6:30 so our regular doctor was closed).
Of course, the urgent care doctor cost twice as much as our regular doctor. $125 later, she comes out to tell me that she has . . . drumroll please . . . Iritis. I should just get my medical degree. She had told the doctor what I thought she had and the doctor told her that I was right but that they wouldn't tell me since he was 55 years old and he still hated it when his mother was right. Jeez . . . a difficult child doctor!!
So he dilated her eye and put drops in it and covered it with a large bandage which she is supposed to wear until tomorrow. He said she could wear an eyepatch tomorrow if the light still bothers her eye. She said that would be just what she would need at the salon when she goes to color someones hair. She is supposed to put steroid drops in her eye twice a day until the inflammation and redness goes away.
I am concerned because I have spent time tonight researching Iritis and don't like what I have found. It seems like it can become a chronic problem with frequent flares. It can also be tied to autoimmune diseases and other medical conditions. Of course, she doesn't have insurance so we really can't have any testing done at this point.
Some people only have it happen once so maybe she will be one of the lucky ones. Here she is really trying and then this has to happen. You can guess who paid the $125.
~Kathy
