On friday we called to make a doctor's appt for A-chan whose eye was all puffy and itchy and red and icky. All weekend we worried about it and how it looked and how much it was bothering her. Also of note was the night I gave her plastic candy canes to put on the midwinter tree and the gigantic amount of glitter that came off on her hands requiring emergency hand washing every five minutes so that she wouldn't get glitter in her eyes when she rubbed them. (Ketu eventually moved them up to toddler un-reachability)
Most of Sunday we spent telling A-chan that tomorrow morning we would go to the doctor. He would look at her eye and make it all better. Amazing enough she held still and let him look not only at her eye but in her ears and nose and mouth with no fighting or struggling. We got medicine and came home happy campers ready to medicate at the first notice of rubbing and itching. What has been very interesting is that there has been no such activity since we returned from the doctor. It's not red, it's not puffy, she's not rubbing it and in fact seems to be in such a better mood that we can't keep up with her.
So now we're wondering: did we not need to go at all or did having the doctor look at it fix everything just like we'd said it would? Should we just try and wait it out in the future instead of making an appt? (assuming there isn't a fever or other obvious doctor-needing symptom of course) The same thing seems to happen to the cats. We make an appt for whatever problem that is occuring but by the time we get to the vet it's disappeared!
Here is a picture of one of A-chan's activities on Saturday: The Blaze Hat.
