A Road Less Travelled

Wednesday afternoon Arianna ran into one of her brother’s fingers. Crystal thought her eye was scratched and put the appropriate drops in and had Arianna lie down and close her eyes. She was still lying down and closing her eyes when Seth got home. They tried to flush the eye with water in case some dirt was stuck in there, but whenever they tried to get Arianna to open her eyes she would start crying and say it hurt too much. If it was a scratch there was nothing to do, but wait so Arianna ate dinner then went upstairs to bed and slept the night away. The next morning her eyelid was swollen and she still couldn’t open her eye. Crystal spent most of the morning playing phone tag with various doctors until she finally got in touch with Arianna’s eye doctor. He said put ice on it (which we were already doing) and if it didn’t improve he told Crystal where to take her. And so they went and found out that three quarters of the surface area of Arianna’s cornea had been scratched off. It isn’t more than surface deep so with time she will heal and her vision will return, but for now we need to be super concerned about infection. If she gets an infection she could go blind in that eye. The doctor said she should be able to see by Saturday.

Please pray for Arianna. Please pray that she would heal quickly and that she would not develop an infection.