The Recovery

* sigh* we are so tired. all in all, things have been going well. caleb is recovering so quickly. already, his eye looks way better today than it did just 2 days ago. victor made the comment that he's like wolverine (in x-men) because he heals so quickly... but he still needs constant attention since he's always trying to rub his eye. we have these arm bands that we're supposed to keep on him so that he can't bend his arms to rub his face, but he hates wearing them (as would i), partly because he can't get to his thumb to soothe himself when he has them on (which is not a good thing), so we rarely make him wear them. we just try to keep his hands away from his face. but the little bugger is pretty "tricksey"... he'll try to rub his face into your chest when you're not paying attention. the wounds must itch or something.

during the day, he's a little more fussy than usual, but it's not terrible. at night, though, it's a different story. as you can imagine, he's having a hard time napping and sleeping since his eye is always wide open. as a result, he gets crazy-overtired, and getting him to sleep is really difficult. last night was insane. i've never seen him so hysterical... and his crying makes me cry. i want to take away his pain so badly, but i can do nothing.

another adventure that we've been going through is giving him medication. he needs to take tylenol every 4 hours, have ointment put on his wounds and in his eye throughout the day to keep it moist, and take an oral antibiotic 3 times a day. (lots of medication...) the ointment must make his eye itch or burn or something, because he freaks out everytime we put it on. he takes the tylenol pretty easily, so that's the one we don't mind so much. but giving him 4 ml of the oral antibiotic is difficult. for one, it's quite a bit of medication for a baby to stomach all at once. second, the medication has to be kept in the fridge, so it's cold when we give it to him. the little guy has only had breastmilk all his life, so i don't think he likes that it's cold. third, he's not used to the taste. victor actually tasted a bit to see what it was like, and he thought it was ok. it tasted sweet. but caleb doesn't seem to take to it. we finally figured out late last night that if we slowly squirt the medication in his mouth while he sucks his thumb, he takes in most of it. (the first couple of tries, most of the medicine ended up on his shirt.) still, it's quite a production everytime we do it.

anyway, that's the current update. i can't wait until things heal more and he's able to close his lid a little more. then, at least, we won't have to keep an eye on him every second of the day, and he'll be able to sleep more... and in turn, we'll be able to sleep more.