So, funny story.

You'll remember my dry, itchy, want-to-gouge-my-eyes-out, eyes. Thank you, worst allergy season of all time.

I would say the peak of the pollen here lasted about 6 days. Six awful days of no rain. And scratching. And driping. And sneezing.

On about day 4, G also developed awful allergy eyes. Red. Puffy. So sad.

Day 5 rolled around and Little J fell victim. Red, itchy eyes. You'll remember he has a tendency toward eczema, which has also been REALLY bad during pollen week. Poor guy.

Let me put on the record that I voiced my suspicions here. But my husband told me I was crazy. Which I sometimes (often) am, so I count on him to be my mental health control.

When Little J woke up on Day 7 with crusty eyes, the truth was obvious. While some of us were indeed suffering from allergies, we ALL also happened to be contagious with pink eye.

Whoops.

Thank goodness we had a never-been-opened box of eyedrops on hand for just this occasion. Complete with dosing instructions (which included the words drops and eye, so I am POSITIVE they were used correctly). This would also be the reason that Mike's old-school eye drops did nothing for me. Oh, and Becky...I found prescription EAR DROPS in our medicine cabinet/pharmacy also. And they do look dangerously like eye drops. Almost made the same mistake myself. Little J almost had super-strong, steroid-drop, eyeballs.