Never a dull moment...

We were staying

in our pj's last Sunday.

That was the plan.

We were going to

lay low and try to

recover from the 

craziness of the

last couple of weeks.

And then I noticed 

that something was

in Lila's eye.

It was black.

And quite large.

I grabbed my Visine

and had Nick hold her

while I put drops in and

tried to flush her eye out.

 No luck.

We traded places.

Then Nick said he

thought it was a piece

of plastic sequin from

one of my shirts.

I just looked at him

with wide eyes.

How?

He reminded me

that Lila had been

rolling herself up like

a burrito in one 

of the rugs.

She must have needed

a bit of sensory input

I reckon.

Nick said that he 

had seen a few of

those sequins on the

rug but he thought he

had vacuumed them 

all up the day before.

Apparently one had
fallen into

her eye when she

was rolling herself

up into the rug.

We traded places a

couple more times,

trying to get the sequin out.

No luck.

Nick watched Lila while

I got ready to take her

to the doctor.

We wanted to make sure

she didn't rub her eye 

and makes things worse

than they already were.

I have to admit, I

was freaking out.

There was a piece of 

plastic in my daughter's eye

and we couldn't get it out.

And of course it had

to be from one of my shirts.

Ugh.

Lila and I headed to

the doctor.  Her eye didn't

look too bad and she wasn't

really acting like it

was bothering her very much.

When we got to Urgent Care

I showed the shirt to

the nurse and told her

that my daughter had one

of the sequins in her eye.

The nurse looked at me

with the same wide eyes I

had when I looked at Nick.

How?

I told her how it happened

and she said,

"I hope we can get 

it out here at the clinic."

So did I.

I was praying

like crazy.

They called us

back and while the tech

was taking Lila's vitals she

was playing a game 

on her iPad.

All of a sudden 

she said, 

"There it is!

It came out!"

I was very skeptical.

I asked her to

show me.  

It looked like she

was trying to get it 

from her iPad screen

with her fingers and

she was getting 

frustrated.  
I couldn't tell

if she was just saying that 

it was out because she

wanted to leave.

She's been known to say

things like that.  : )

And then she handed

me the sequin.

"See?  I told you!"

I asked her to lay

back so that I could

look in her eye.

Sure enough, 

it was gone.

I was so happy

I started crying.

The tech looked 

at me and said,

"That is awesome.

Now we don't have to

do more damage

trying to get it

out of there."

Two doctors came in.

They had heard about

the sequin and figured it

would take both of them

to remove it from

Lila's eye. 

They couldn't believe

it had just fallen

out in their office.

They put numbing drops

in her eye then put some

dye in.

Then they got a

purple light out

and looked in her

eye.  It was pretty

cool.  I would have

taken a photo but I was

holding Lila's hands to try 

and keep her calm.

Her eye was glowing

neon yellow.

It was pretty cool.

They found an abrasion

about 3/4 of an inch long

in her eye. 

Antibiotic eye drops 
for 10 days.
That's it.

My sweet girl
was a trooper,
like always.


Her mama is
very grateful,
as always.

And now, for
a little disclaimer.
Or explanation.
Or something.

When all the commotion
died down and we knew 
that Lila was safe,
I got a text from Justin.
" Since this whole
sequin debacle is over,
I've got a question:
Why in the heck are you
wearing a shirt with
sequins on it?
It's 2013!"

For the record~
 It's a new shirt,
sold at Old Navy,
and it's only 
been worn once.

Old Navy sequin shirt 

I'll probably donate
it very soon.
 xoxo