Gallery ~ Eyes

bibsey mama On November - 28 - 2012

The Gallery theme over at Sticky Fingers this week is Eyes.

My baby has gorgeous blue smiling eyes. For me, they are the most beautiful eyes that ever opened and lit up at the sight of a glass-doored dessert/ice cream cabinet.

Early this year Bibsey suffered with a series of eye infections in varying shades of nastiness. It seemed that the first incident, which was accompanied in the middle of the night (isn’t it always?) by a raging fever, created in her a susceptibility to conjunctivitis that carried on throughout the spring. Whenever she had a cold or a new tooth her eyes would get infected too. It went on and on.

We even ended up in Urgencias one Sunday and they asked me why I hadn’t come earlier. Yes, thank you, could I have some guilt to go with that panic please?

She had endless antibiotic eye drops, that were a bloody nightmare to administer, and never seemed to clear the problem up decisively. In the end I went back to the Doctor, to tell her that nothing was working, so she tried a different tack. It turned out that poor old Bibsey’s suffering was down to the olive pollen in the air (not an uncommon complaint here in Southern Spain) and a daily dose of antihistamine sorted her out almost immediately.

No more horrid eye drops. And no more plaintive whispers of “eyes Mummy, eyes”, as I cuddled her in the dark before rising, just dreading looking in my little girl’s eyes knowing that they would be red and swollen and gunky.

Just beautiful, clear, blue eyes. With lashes to die for.

Click The Gallery badge below to look into some other people’s eyes.

http://twitter.com/jooleroo Julie (Mama OWL)

I’m glad her pretty little peepers are better now x

http://www.bibsey.co.uk Bibsey Mama

Oh, me too. I just hope that we can keep on top of it in the Spring when the pollen starts again.

http://twitter.com/SAHDandproud Spencer

A lovely post, with lovely photos. Glad that all is okay now.

http://www.bibsey.co.uk Bibsey Mama

Thanks. At least we are prepared for it this coming spring. Fingers crossed it will be better.

http://twitter.com/Older_Mum Older Mum

Beautiful Bibsey!!!! Glad her eyes have cleared up now – until now, I’d never heard of olive pollen!. X.

http://www.bibsey.co.uk Bibsey Mama

Me either, but I know of at least one other kid that suffers with it. I also had a terrible sore throat in the spring (that went on and on and on, so obviously I thought the WORST and went the the doctor) which was also attributed to pollen… never had that before. Must be bad where we are.

mymummylife

So pretty Glad you found out what was causing her allergy. My son had a horrid allergic reaction to something back in the summer, which left him looking like he’d been punched in both eyes, but we never worked out what caused it.
http://twitter.com/dear_beautiful_ Lucy

She has such pretty eyes. And as you say, lashes to die. I’m glad you got to the bottom of the eye infections, it’s always so horrible when they are unwell. X
http://twitter.com/ageingmatron anna tims

Now those are eyes I would give my, er, right eye for. You can see the laughter in them.
Susan Mann

So many gorgeous eyes x