M seemed a little extra miserable on Friday and then was definitely sick by Friday night with a runny nose and congestion. I'm not sure if it's because she wears the contact everyday, or if this is just how she was made, but when she gets a congestion type cold she always seems to get an infected eye in that contact wearing eye.
So Saturday, and now Sunday, have been contact and patch free days. Her eye is just so red, watery, and irritated, that there's no point in suffering through what I would imagine would be great discomfort when wearing a contact. We've been through this before with her a few times. If the cold is bad enough, it always affects that eye, but at least now we know this is what happens with her. The first time it happened it was a month after her cataract removal surgery (Christmas Eve day), and I hadn't discussed with her surgeon what to do should we think the eye had an infection (because M was seeing him so frequently I hadn't thought there was a need...). So in hopes of not having to go in on Christmas Day, I took M to the emergency at the Children's Hospital, where she had had the surgery, and tried to have someone look at her. They of course, heard the words 'eye surgery' and immediately contacted a few people and got me an appointment at the Eye Institute the next day.
Today she's looking better, and I suspect tomorrow will be the day we return to contacts and patching again.
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