Eye burn

Warning: You may cringe or your eyes might water when you read this post.

Yesterday I was working on a sewing project which has been on hold for the better part of three months.  As I rarely iron (forgive me mom) I’m not sure I’ve properly lectured Ireen about iron safety.  My iron has a base which heats it and when you remove it from the base the iron is cordless.  While the iron was heating in its base, I asked Ireen to pass me some sewing pins.  Instead of walking around the iron she reached over the iron to hand me the pins…unfortunately, the tip of the hot iron was exactly eye level.  Yup, you guessed it, she burned her eye.

Immediately we got ice and tylenol.  She said that the burn was only on the lid.  However, I became more and more concerned since her eye was watering non-stop and opening her eye proved to be excruciating.  I then tried to contact my mom and mother-in-law…because they have all the answers but neither was available.  Then I called Tim to see how far he was from home – 2 hrs minimum drive.  I then woke Ian up and walked them both down the lane to SES (Specialty Emergency Services) where there are paramedics on-call.  I found Leighann.  She took a look at Ireen’s eye and said that no damage had been done to the cornia – Praise God!!

Last night when Tim returned from his trip, he and those with him were very concerned for Ireen.  In fact when I called they were in the middle of praying with a tribal cheif about spiritual attack.  Tim excused himself saying, “my wife never calls this many times in a row”.  When he returned to them, they began to pray for Ireen’s eye.  They prayed that her eye would be protected and that no perminent damage would occur.  God certainly heard their prayers.

Ireen went to bed early and woke up late this morning.  Her eye is swolen and still painful to open but other than that she is back to her normal self.  I put this bandaid/eye patch on her eye this morning to make it easier for her to see out of the other eye.  School is canceled for today.