Eye troubles

My oldest daughter has had some significant eye problems during her life. This weekend she started complaining about her eye feeling like it was bruised. The wife took a look at it, and there were some ruptured blood vessels in her eye, which always looks good.

I looked up broken blood vessels online, and it turns out they are pretty common. The wife was pretty freaked out, and since we have the number for the on-call doctor at the Moran Eye Center, she gave him a call. He basically reiterated everything I had found online, and followed with if it gets worse or starts hurting bring her in.

My wife, being smarter than me or the doctor, she got in touch with our nurse practitioner who told us it looked infected and that we needed to have it looked at on Monday.

So my wife has been into one doctor, and is currently waiting for our retinal specialist. They think her eye condition might be linked to her first retina detachment surgery. I'm blogging this from my phone, so I'll update it later, and include some more information about what I fin out, and her past surgery.

Update Hooray, it was nothing, well it is something, but nothing serious. The older daughter saw her ophthalmologist, and he didn't like the discoloration all the way around her eye. He got her in to the retinal specialist. He took some time getting to her, but when he looked at it said she would be okay. He was concerned that her scleral buckle was having problems. After looking at her eye, he said that it appears her eye experienced some trauma (the youngest child, most likely), and that it ruptured some blood vessels. He said she had surface blood, and that it should go away in the next week or so. The discoloration around the eye was from the fact that the blood followed the buckle around her eye. No surgery required!