Swimming and pink eye

Yesterday was the first day of swimming lessons for a month! Glee had to sit out. She developed pink eye on Sunday in what seems to be record time. At 4pm she was fine, at 4:30 she had an oozing pus filled eye. It was swollen and icky. We went to the doctor yesterday who confirmed pink eye, but before that, at the pool, we saw one of Thomas' friends from preschool, and her baby brother had it in both eyes. We were all together, including Glee, a former participant in the preschool, for the last day luau. Thomas and I did the swim class (a last chance for me, he will age out after this summer, and he becomes a tadpole like Glee next year). After class we went to library where we saw ANOTHER of Thomas' former classmates, who also has pink eye, and she had shared it with her dad. Three cases, I was pretty sure it was what Glee had too.

We tried some home remedies, on Sunday. We washed her eye with a sterile contact lens solution, about 6 times. We also used black tea steeped for a few minutes. We washed her eye with the cooled tea, and put the tea bag on it for fifteen minutes. It was still red and swollen on Monday, but no infection! Now it's in the other eye, and the doctor gave us a prescription for antibiotic eye drops, and we will use those until they are gone.

That's how our summer has been so far. It's not as hot today, there is a marine layer, but it will be gone in time for swim lessons. Then I drop them at a friend's house for the middle of the day, I have some prep to do for our Last Day of Brownies (for the year) party tomorrow. 18 girls at Build a bear. Shoot me now... Happy Tuesday!