OMG... The second round of drops for Emmett went worse than the first round this morning. Lizze and I had to wrestle him and hold him down while I tried to get the drops into his eyes.
Lizze took the brunt of the meltdown as she was kicked in the face and throat.
When I finally got the drops in, Lizze went into the shower room and broke down. She sobbed and sobbed. This is a nightmare for everyone.
Emmett was so upset that he was dry heeving...
I believe this is only the fourth of twenty eight rounds that have to be done...
I'm honestly concerned that someone is going to think we are torturing him and call the police.
There isn't really anyway to get these drops done without a major meltdown and we've tried everything we can think of.
The only thing we haven't done was try doing this while he's sleeping but Emmett's the kind of kid that if doing this woke him up, getting him to close his eyes at night going forward would be next to impossible. He generalizes everything and it only takes one time to create a long term problem.
To be completely honest, I'm not even sure how much of the medication is actually getting into his eyes.
We are calling the doctor to find out if there are any other options for treating Pink Eye, that doesn't require eyedrops.
I'm not holding my breath because I don't think oral antibiotics will work and I'm not sure there is any other avenue to explore.. We still have two more rounds to do today and I'm not at all looking forward to doing this to him again....
This battle isn't the result of Emmett just being difficult. This is mostly sensory related and it's not his fault.
Receiving these drops is very likely much worse for him than it is for us trying to give them to him.
I don't know how we are going to survive this.
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