Today Clarissa got her eye duct cleared with a needle at the eye doctor. This happened to Lydia when Lydia was a baby, and Abe fainted when it happened. Lydia was looking forward to seeing Abe faint again and gleefully sang a song on the way to the doctor about how “Daddy is going to faint!”
…But Dr. Yeates had other plans. He asked us all to step out of the room while he did the procedure. Abe took Ammon, who was insane, to the waiting room with the girls, and I stood outside the door and listened to Clarissa’s agonized screams. I was grateful not to be in the room, because Clarissa did not see me as complicit in her trauma. The minute Dr. Yeates handed her back, she calmed down. He reported that something popped when he cleared her left eye.
After the procedure Clarissa had a nosebleed and bloody tears for the rest of the day. It was so sad. But she cheered right up and did not seem to be abnormally sad, so we are glad for that.