"it's all fun and games until someone gets a black eye!"

Well...............we had a lovely Easter............until Tyler got hit in the eye with a baseball!! Went to my Aunt Michelle's for dinner. Was great to see all my aunts/uncles and cousins/kids etc. Food was great and my family puts on a great spread. Thanks for having us....I would have liked to have stayed longer! After dinner the boys (Tyler, Gunner, Drake and Uncle Mark) decided to go out back and play some baseball. Was pouring down rain! Obviously...........Tyler missed a ball.....
I could see in the backyard and Tyler was laying in the grass...........in the pouring rain. With Uncle Mark and his cousins standing over him. I figured he got hit in the eye but didn't think too much about it. But..... for Uncle Mark to be standing over him I thought it "could" be bad. Usually he would say "you're ok............get up and let's play some ball".......
Well it was obviously worse then we thought........
It's a shiner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (disclaimer...............graphic material to follow........especially the last pic).
We iced it and gave him Tylenol to keep the swelling down. And by the time we got home I called Urgent Care.........and of coarse they were closed................
Who gets hurt during office hours? Always a weekend, holiday or night time.!

So to reassure myself I was doing all I could do.........I texted my cousin Angela (who is a baby nurse), my sister Donna (who is a mom of 2 boys who always seem to be getting hurt), and texted my mom. (who raised 65 kids in her life...she did in-home daycare for 30 years!) So I just kept and eye on him. Didn't sleep. And worried about him all night. (but I kept it cool around him and catered to his every whim!)

Things like vision impairment make me a little nervous. This is what he looked like this morning. Lots of broken blood vessels in his eyeball. We decided to see if we could get him into the doctor today. (Clem, thanks for suggesting the EYE Dr. over our medical doctor!). Better to be safe than sorry. He has an appt today at 2:45.........

Probably gonna be black and blue for awhile. The chicks will dig it. He will have to go to school tomorrow and explain the shiner! Poor kid...............like I said.............."it's all fun and games until someone gets a black eye!"