[flickr id=”5885702740″ thumbnail=”medium” overlay=”true” size=”small” group=”” align=”left”]She poked her in the eye.

I know you’ve all heard the story in snippets on twitter, but oy.

Yesterday morning a LOUD scream echoed out from the girls room.  The one that said “True pain” not “drama queen” like Angel’s usual screams.

When I ran in she said that Riley had poked her in the eye.  I thought, at first, it was a typical brief poking, no real damage and she’d be fine.  Calmed down the situation and it seemed okay…but then it wasn’t.

Angel kept crying in pain every thirty minutes or so, moving up to ear splitting screams. So I took her to the pediatrician.

A large scratch (like a cm wide, 1/2 cm thick) right over her pupil.

It was intentional.

The poking, if not the depth of the result.

Angel spent the night in bed w/ me, Archie slept on the couch. I got to hear the heart melting words “Mama can I snuggle with you?” in my Angel’s darling cute little voice.

Today things are better…Angel isn’t shrieking in pain every 20-30 minutes…the ointment they gave her appears to be helping…and she’s rocking the eye patch. The girls are getting along again, even though Angel is telling her sister not to hurt her on a more frequent basis.

I don’t know where we go from here, but I know we need help.  Riley needs help. I’m certain she needs more than the school can provide, but the school is where we’ll start, while I schedule an appointment w/ the developmental pediatrician and wait until we can get in (likely to be a few months).