Tears of a Clown

I took Jack to the Eye Doctor on Tuesday to have his clogged tear duct looked at. Needless to say a 19 month old at a very busy eye doctor's office was an experience in and of itself. Plus, I had to pick Marley up from school early because Mac had class and there wasn't going to be anyone home when she got off the bus. With Marley along you figure she would be a lot of help, but at 5 1/2 (going on 14) she is FULL FULL FULL of questions about everything! She wanted to know about the people she saw, the equipment they used, why a regular doctor couldn't just look at his eye...etc. She wasn't really misbehaved, just her normal talkative self. I figure she gets that from Mac...ha ha.

Anyway, I was really curious as to how the appointment would go since Jack doesn't really hold still for more than 5 seconds at a time, especially if someone is trying to look at his eye. They put a few drops in his eyes and kept us in a dim room waiting for the doctor. Again, waiting much too long considering it was a 19 month old in a room with very interesting eye equipment, no a/c it was really warm in there, and a 5 year old freaking out that the lights were off and using all her strength not to take the nurse forms and write on them. Once the doctor came in I held Jack why he looked at his eye with a few different instruments. Granted I know nothing about being an eye doctor, but it seriously looked like hocus pocus to me. Jack tried to grab everything that he tried putting in front of his eye, so I have no idea how he figured out that Jack is farsighted (normal for his age I guess). He of course says "He has a blocked tear duct" which is obvious since Jack typcially has "duck poop" in the corner of his eye and at the moment there was a lot of it from the drops they had put in earlier. So he says that since Jack is 19 months old it isn't going to go away by itself, so he needs surgery to clean out the tear duct. I figured that is what would have to happen. Apparently the procedure is simple, takes less than 5 minutes, but Jack has to be put under with gas and they do it at the hospital. Needless to say I want the problem resolved, but it is kind of scary to think about him having surgery. He is scheduled to have it done on February 26th.

If you look close on one you can see the dried "goop" on his nose.