Jacob's Bad Fall

Poor Jacob had a terrible accident at school. He was running in the outside play area towards the sandbox and tripped just before he got there. He landed face first on the wooden edge. :( The school called Jason to let him know what happened and that they were icing it (the fall happened right before lunch) and they'd call us if anything changes. After he woke up from his nap, it was so swollen, they called to have us pick him up. When I arrived, I felt SO BADLY for him. His eye was so swollen, he could hardly see. When I entered the room, Jacob looked grim (not his usual excited self) and his friend Mackenzie came running up to me yelling, "Eye! Eye!"

This picture doesn't look so bad because you can't tell how puffy it was. It puffed out what seemed like at least an inch.



As you can see here, his spirits were fairly good, though he knew he had hurt himself.




The next morning, it looked worse :( In this picture, he has both eyes wide open. His bad eye had swollen up so much, it would hardly open at all. We had frequent icings ....




But I got him a special ice fish to put on his eye. We iced it for 3-4 days in a row. It was BAD. He dug the fish though. (After this incident, any bump or bang, no matter how slight, he said, "I need my fish!")

The eye took a long time to heal - about three weeks before the bruising went away. And the bruising changed colors making it look terrible! The good news is, his actual eye was fine, and no damage was done. It just looked awful. Poor little guy :(