Eric and his eye

We were swimming on Saturday afternoon, and Eric was underwater swimming when a kid kicked him in the eye. OUCH!!!! It hurt a lot, (so he said). He kept swimming. An hour later at home his eyes are really red (normal from the chlorine), but his left eye has these blood spots on them and whenever his eye starts to tear, it REALLY HURTS. Uh - Oh. My mommy instinct starts dinging and I think it's time to take him to see the Doctor. So off we go, they freeze his eye, put in this really cool orange dye, and the DR. looks at it with a blue light. WELL, low and behold appears a florescnet green streak across this eye onto his cornea. There is the scratch, big and painful looking. (Maybe in the shape of a toenail?) So eye drops for him, sunglasses outside. And the coolest by his standard was the neon green snot coming from his nose. It's amazing how fast eyes heal though. By the next evening, his cornea is clear of the scratch (refroze and dyed again, and now his snot is orange), now the white of his eye is still healing, but so fast.