Ocular Cellulitis

This is what Anderson looked like when he woke up Tuesday. This picture doesn't do it justice. (I took it with my cell phone) One eye swollen shut and continuous green gunk pouring from the corners of his eye. Just plain GROSS! I thought to myself, "oh great, pink eye!" We already had Dr. appointments scheduled for that afternoon for the kid's 2 and 4 year well checks, so we just hand sanitized liked crazy so it the rest of the family wouldn't get it.

After we get settled in our room at the Dr.'s office and were told no shots (vaccines) today (yay!), the Dr. took one look at Anderson's eye and said, "He's getting a S-H-O-T!" Apparently, he had some sort of eye infection that developed into cellulitis around his eyes. He drew a circle around his eye and told me to come back if the redness moved outside of the circle. They gave him a shot of antibiotics and gave us a script for "the big gun" antibiotic, Augmentin. While I am grateful that this antibiotic has kept us from having an overnight stay in the hospital, I must say I really hate it! Anderson fights me every time so he often ends up choking on it. Tonight it even came back up. yuck! And that's not to mention what it does to the dirty diaper situation in this house! Oh well. I think I can deal for ten days to avoid the hospital. The antibiotics are working very well. By the end of the day Tuesday, the swelling was mostly gone and when he woke up this morning, even some of the redness has subsided. He's well on his way to being 100%!

Anderson went around all day on Tuesday looking like this! I think he looks like that little kid from the Little Rascal's! ;)