Martin and I took the kids to the beach this past weekend (Aug 1-5) and just got back last night. (As you can see I'm a little late posting this, but it should make some of you happy that I WAS working on it ;o)
We had such a great time! Both kids were beside themselves wanting to get there. Let me just say, it takes longer to get to Orange Beach than I remember... Not sure what all that's about, but I wasn't diggin' it. But we got there. Safely and that's all I can ask for.
Once we got there and unpacked we were beach bound. Unfortunately the jellyfish were out, so we couldn't get in the water :o( But we weren't letting them rain on our parade. No we weren't! So we elected to play in the sand instead. Graisi decided she'd find the j-fish and warn everybody that came along. LOL
Sunday was beautiful. I spent most of the day with my toes planted in the sand and a cold drink (with lime of course) in my hand. The jellyfish were gone but their tentacles were not! Graisi and Alli Claire got stung many times, so we decided to stay land locked for the remainder of the day. We enjoyed having dinner with some friends of ours who were also in OB for several days. Thank you Brad and Andrea for putting up with us and some great conversation. Brad... I'm not sure I'll ever look at you the same way!! ROFL That's good stuff right there!
Monday was also fantastic. No jellies!! Martin and the girls played in the water. Mom was back on the beach in the sun! I soaked it UP. We headed back to the condo and got ready for family-beach pics. I'll post them when I get them edited :o) They're great!! Dinner was not so great. I won't go into detail... it just wasn't good!
Tuesday was... you guessed it! MORE SUN! This was was sand castle day, but only because AC wanted one badly... it wasn't "great" but it was 3 yr old qualifiable :o) That's all I needed. I got in the water a few times, but I had my spot and I wasn't moving much if I could help it. We also took a dauphin cruise and had a neat time watching them surface and play around. Alli Claire wanted to swim with them :o) If anyone goes and wants to do this (ride that is), look up Skipper J's Dauphin Cruises. Great experience and no once yelling at you on a loud speaker. We at dinner at Flippers there at the marina. This dinner sooooo made up for the previous night. I would also highly recommend their cuisine. YUM!!
And now on to Wednesday morning... Alli Claire woke up around 3:30am screaming her head off! My immediate thought, as I was so quickly awaken from my slumber, was that she had fallen out of the bed. If you'd have given me a few seconds more I would have coherently realized this was not possible since she had a bed rail on the bed with a chair pushed up against it. But it was, after all, 3:30 IN THE MORNING! There were no coherent thoughts... I struggled with my legs trying to get them to cooperate w/ the covers, to no avail. So I did the next best thing... I screamed at Martin, slapped his arm and instructed him to GET UP. For all I knew, we had a 3 yr old laying on the cold, stone tile floor with her head bleeding profusely from the massive head trauma she had obtained while falling from the whopping height of 2 1/2
feet from the bed to the floor. (This was the actual mental picture I had...really.) And I wasn't going to have to witness and clean it up myself ... when I could get my feet untangled. As our bedroom door flew open... there was no blood. No 3 yr old on the floor. No trauma to deal with. Just Alli Claire sitting up in the middle of her bed screaming as if monkeys had just eaten her feet off. Ok... so I got her calmed down then noticed Martin in the kitchen profusely rubbing his eye. I asked if he was ok and he assured me that he was, but thought he had something in it. So I went back to bed and he took a little bit longer to follow than I thought he should have. I asked him again if he were ok and he said his eye was hurting pretty bad. I knew immediately he'd torn his cornea and suggested we go to the emergency room immediately. He refused. Are any of us surprised? So... my "mommy mode" kicked in. I went into the kitchen and found the yellow pages. The only "medical" type professionals that were up at, now, 4am was a 24 hr Walgreens in Mobile. So I called. To which the pharmacist confirmed my plan of care and thought it best to get him to the emergency room, too. I went back to the bedroom and told him of our treatment assessment and he declined again. What did I do? I rolled over and went back to sleep. I figured if he wasn't too worried about going blind before we could get him to a doctor, then I wasn't either. I know it was not the "good-wifely" thing to do, but he was being stubborn. We got up the next morning, packed the car (apparently the pain had subsided) and hit the road home. About 10 minutes in the car, I looked over and asked if he wanted me to find him an optometry appt for when we got home. He said, "Yes.". I knew he was a little worried at that point :o) When he woke up he couldn't see out of that eye... Anywho, I called a friend of ours from church and he was able to see Martin at 3pm last Wednesday afternoon. I was really hoping to be sleeping with a pirate for the next week, but no dice! Paul said he'd torn the top layer of the cornea off but it had started to heal by the time we got there. We left with sample ointments and drops (which is #1) and was told to come back if it was still bothering him a week or so. Paul said more than likely what happened was that Martin was sound asleep and his eyes had cracked a bit drying out the exposed tissue. When he quickly opened his eyes from the screaming (and slap :o), they didn't have a chance to lubricate and the lid had become attached to the eye itself. EWWW!
No comments:
Post a Comment