October 25, 2009

Super glue your eye shut?

So today my son tried to get a toy basket ball hoop that was held on by suction cups off the window and broke the darn thing into two pieces. He brought the broken piece to my husband, who proceeded to call him the incredible hulk. I said to just throw the thing into the garbage but Jerika persisted that it could be fixed and took it and the other piece off the window and went in the kitchen. I heard her rummaging through the junk drawer and slink off to where I could not see her. Now I am not stupid so I asked her to show me what she had in her hands and it was super glue. Scary huh. Well my husband decided to do the gluing, smart move, and fixed the hoop backboard.

He then put the lid on the super glue and put it on the table, where Trenton was playing. I know what was he thinking. I was in the living room when Trenton started screaming and rubbing his eye. I ran into the kitchen to see super glue all over his eye.

I yelled for my husband to help and we worked to get it off his eye. I was worried that he got it on his eyeball, but the advise nurse I called said if he got it on his hand first and then rubbed his eye that he would have closed it first, which is what happened. I yelled for Jerika to get the camera. You know you have to take a picture of a super glued eye. The advice nurse agreed with me, so don't judge.
Here are the pics.

3 people feeding my addiction to comments:

Kristina P. said...

Poor guy! Super glue anywhere is the worst.

rachel... said...

Oh no! We've made quite a few calls to the after-hours nurse, too, but none (yet!) for superglue! I sure hope his eye's okay! And remember, years from now, you'll look back on this and... BLAME DAD!

I found your blog through Kristina P's! I have 3 girls and a boy, too! You have a beautiful family, Tiffany!

The Schaefer's said...

That's so scary. I'm glad everything worked out. Poor little guy.