Pinkeye

Why is it that children always come down with something on Friday afternoon? At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon Jeremy started complaining about his eye hurting, and within an hour it was red, teary, and goopy. I suspect pinkeye, but know that such a diagnosis requires antibiotics from the pediatrician. The only problem? It's 3:00 on Friday afternoon!!! After Ammon got home, we were discussing our options. Taking Jeremy to InstaCare this morning wasn't going to work because Ammon has been working six days a week and needed the van this morning to drive himself in at 7 am. In a fit of desperation, I called our pediatrician's nurse to see what options we possibly had. She listened carefully to my description of his symptoms, and agreed that it looked like pinkeye. Having great sympathy for our Friday afternoon predicament, she said that she would call in the appropriate eye drops to our local pharmacy, where I was able to pick them up about an hour later. This morning, Jeremy's eye looks worse, but we're hoping with the help of the drops that it clears up very soon. Either way, we're definitely on house arrest for a while. As a precaution we will be keeping Kadon home as well, so it looks like any plans we had for the weekend just went by the wayside. The things we're willing to do for a sick, miserable child.