Doctor makes house call . . .

Stephen went to bed early last night but woke up an hour later in excruciating pain in the eye. He was like a wounded animal in a round room. We didn't know what to do and I didn't want another ER experience this month, so at 10:30 pm I made the decision to call Dr. Hatch at home. He talked with Stephen and decided that he would come over to the house and exam Stephen's eye. Wow! Because he only lives about 2 miles from us, coming to the house was closer than the office. Dr. Hatch was able to get the protective lens off of Stephen's eye and then he was able to get some numbing drops in it along with several applications of a steroid drop. After about 1/2 hr, Stephen's eye began to settle down. Dr. Hatch said that the protective lens had gotten dried out even though Stephen was putting drops in his eye. The solution just wasn't getting under the lens and that the eye and the lens were working against each other causing the blood vessels in his eye to expand. I spent the night waking Stephen up every 2 hrs so that he could put the steroid drops into his eye. Thankfully, his eye was feeling pretty good this morning so he was able to go into work.