On Sunday, Penny noticed that her bad eye was red and swollen. She went to her normal doctor and he said to come back the next day. She did as she was told and eventually he told her that he had no idea what was going on and that he was going to send her to a specialist in the Twin Cities. On Wednesday, I went with her for medial/memory issues and just to be there with her through this. Dr. Gupta (an amazing woman who was a real sweetheart) told us she had a corneal ulcer and prescribed her pills, ointment, and eye drops. The two type of eye drops work together to help treat this and they have to be taken every hour. They can't be at the same time so it ended up that she'd have to put in eye drops every half hour, alternating which ones she was putting in. We took her home and she tried to do it herself for a day, and she was allowed to sleep most the night and only have to get up once to put them in. However, she called me the next morning and told me she wasn't comfortable with that and wanted to be admitted into the Phillips Eye Institute, where she was seeing her doctor, so that they could take care of her and then she'd worry a little less about it.
So now she's up in the Twin Cities at the Phillips Eye Institute. After a long two days I just hope that everything works out okay and that she is able to come home on Saturday or Sunday, depending on if she's comfortable enough with that. I guess only time will tell and we will just have to hope for the best.
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