On Sunday, Aaron had a bloodshot eye. Just between the iris and the outer corner. It looked like he may have scratched his eye or something. It was tearing and didn't seem to bother him. But on Monday when he got up, it was darker red, so I called his doctor's office. I had wanted to call anyway since he still had diarrhea after 8 days and he still had loss of appetite. So I left a message for the nurse and after talking to her, she made an appointment for Aaron that morning.
He saw a doctor that we hadn't had an appointment with before. He was great, as all the pediatricians have been that we've seen there so far. He didn't think the bloodshot eye was due to an infection, so there wasn't anything to do to treat it. And he said if Aaron still had diarrhea on Wednesday, they could do a stool sample. He would have expected it to last 4-5 days tops. But he said most likely Aaron just had a bad virus, possibly adenovirus, and he was just taking a long time to fight it off.
Sure enough, by Wednesday he was getting back to normal, and even back to just 2 naps a day. By Thursday, his eye had cleared up and his appetite was back to normal, too. And now he seems like the happy, energetic little boy we had before the stomach flu hit nearly two weeks ago.
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