Scratched Cornea

Last Wednesday Maddox hit himself in the eye with the "WiiMote". It hurt pretty bad immediately and looked like it hurt bad, but after awhile he was fine. Later he was cupping his eye on and off all day saying that it was bothering him. The next day he was doing the same thing and his eye was watering a lot when we went outside, but not the other eye. We brought him in to Ready Care after Clayton got off work and it turns out that he didn't hit his eye with the Wii remote, but he poked his eye with his finger nail (he told the doctor he poked himself in the eye) and he scratched his cornea. Because of his age, they didn't want to do anything for it because it would probably irritate it more, but we had to make a trip back into the doctor on Saturday morning to have it looked at. He still has a scratch that will eventually heal, but the rest of his eye is now fine and it hasn't been bothering him at all.

After we stopped in at the doctor on Saturday morning, Daddy and Faelyn dropped Maddox and I off at the Metrodome for Twins fest. It was OK. You definitely need a lot of money to really enjoy it. Autographs were between $5-50, most of the ones that were even worthy of getting were at least $10. Justin Morneau was $15 and I really would have paid that but we got there and got settled with some food before we even knew what the times, prices, etc of the autographs were and Morneau only had 10 minutes left signing and you could see the line of people in the suite on the other side of the ball park. We did walk past Gomez, Bonser, and Perkins who had autograph stands on the field where most of the commotion was. They were $10 for autographs. Bert Blyleven was signing in another suite when we were getting ready to go, but you couldn't see inside of it from where we had sat down to finish our chips. We got a couple things, including a poster of Cuddyer, Mauer, and Morneau and a Waste Management baseball bat that was signed (screen print signed) by Cuddyer. Maddox got a balloon sword but was pretty bummed out about it because he didn't get the one he asked the guy for and the guy said "he'll never notice"... Yeah, what 4 year old isn't going to notice that he got a scrawny little light blue sword and not the 3 times as fat and long dark blue one that shoots up in the air and floats back down to you... Flipping people!

First we got our food.


Then we braved the crowd.