Haemolacria...NOT a post-Halloween joke!

I am patiently waiting outside the school for my kids to do the Friday sprint.  2 minutes early I see my mini-me being escorted by a teacher with a tissue over her mouth/nose.  "Oh, another bloody nose!"  Yes, we live in ATX where allergies are our worst enemy and Fran has suffered the most.  I take away the tissue and she is covered (in blood).  I clean her chin, her cheeks, her nose, even her eye...she must have blown her nose and drops ended up there, poor baby.  She is clean. I kiss her. Parents are staring at me because that is what parents do when a nurse is given a hurt/bleeding child.  Their reactions will follow my reactions.  She is fine, she is perfect.

10 seconds later blood pours (no exaggerating) from her left eye.  I wipe it immediately then look at my close friend leaning over my shoulder.  All trace of blood is gone.  I am frozen.  I ask her..."did you see that."  She replied "yes."  The world has stopped around me.  I don't think a single soul took a breath.  It bled again.  "SHIT" is what I wanted to scream but not appropriate for an elementary school ground.

In my almost 20 years of nursing, I have never witnessed, heard of, or even studied such thing.  With wonderful support of friends/neighbors, my boys were taken care of.  I took Fran to the school nurse, wanting to irrigate her eye in search of  a small laceration, something to explain this.  Nothing.  In her 35 years of the profession, she has never witnessed this either.  

ER, Urgent Care, Pediatrician, home...where do I go?  She can see fine.  She denies ANY pain.  She said there was no trauma, paper cut, bumps, or collisions.  Pedi it is...

She has never seen this.  The PNP has never seen this.  A phone call to Dell Childrens Ophthalmology Dept (yes, there a few weeks ago for a quick appendectomy) and this could be related to all the sinus/allergy/bloody nose problems.  NICE...antibiotic drops just in case, call Dell if it happens often.

Home by 4:00 for our Friday night late over...no more bleeding.  Praying for this NEVER to happen again. Not to her. And not in my sleep tonight.  It was awful!