Just as he was getting over his ear infection that kept him out of school for a week with a fever, Danny had an accident. Yesterday afternoon, he and Hayden were throwing pretend pitch forks at each other. One caught Danny in the right eye.

Kathy and I heard him screaming home. Hayden was walking with him. His eye looked bad. It was purple and it looked like a marble was under the swollen lid. We all got in the car and drove to the emergency room. Danny held an ice pack on his eye all the way. He said that he could sort of see. Some things were black and white and some things color.

I carried him in. The triage nurse said it didn’t look like the eyeball was punctured and directed me to a registration nurse. As I held Danny in my arms, the registration nurse started with her list of questions. She didn’t get past asking for my zip code when I asked her if someone could look at Danny’s eye. I would be glad to answer all her questions after that.

That got us in. The triage nurse looked more carefully at Danny’s eye and then had him read an eye chart. He did real well considering he has only a recent command of the alphabet. He stood behind the line by himself, one hand over his good eye, his hurt eye swollen. I was relieved.

We rented The Empire Strikes Back and moved the couch so that Danny could be comfortable and close to the TV. He fell asleep before it started.

Kathy, who does not care for science fiction movies, played with Kelly in the sitting room. It was Kelly’s 3rd month birthday and she laughed (giggled) for the first time.

Nicole and I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.

[Danny’s version transcribed…]

Me and Hayden were throwing pitch forks at each other. We had to go to the doctors because I got hit in my eye with the pitch fork. They had to cover my good eye and they made me read the letters. I wasn’t right on some of them and I was right on some of them. After that they put me on a scale to see how much I weigh. I went into this bed and they put lots of eye drops, water, on my eye. I cried. They had to turn off the lights and they looked at my eye with a flashlight. Then they looked at my eye with another flashlight. I cried because I didn’t like it shining in my eyes. Then they had to put a double patch on my eye. Then I went to go home. I fell asleep at the start of Star Wars.