We had some excitement yesterday.
We bought the boys airsoft rifles for Christmas.
They shoot soft plastic BBs.
Son two is 14 and Son three is 12.
They’ve had BB guns since they were barely able to toddle, so we thought it would be no big deal.
My husband took Son one out to practice driving, and Son three went with him.
I was in the kitchen washing dishes, and had left Son two and my daughter watching cartoons in the living room.
Then I heard a blood-curdling scream from my daughter.
I ran into the living room, and Son two said he had accidentally shot her in the eye.
After that one scream, all she did was stand like a statue, slightly shaking, showing no emotion at all.
It scared me to death.
I called 911 and my husband.
The decision was made to take her by ambulance to Knoxville.
My husband met the ambulance en route.
Originally, we were heading to East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, but they communicated with the ambulance that we needed to go to the University of Tennessee Medical Center, a trauma hospital that had a pediatric eye surgeon on standby.
Long story short: thank heavens it was an airsoft BB gun with plastic pellets.
The pellet actually bounced off her pupil, which is now the shape of a football.
Had it been a metal pellet, it would have been an entirely different story.
She’s okay.
We have eye drops to put in and a lot of doctor appointments ahead of us just to be safe, but she’s okay.
They say she is now more at risk for glaucoma, cataracts, and macular degeneration due to the trauma, so we need to make sure she has yearly eye exams.
The police did come by.
They agreed it was an accident, and I guess that is that.
The new rule is that BB guns are kept outside and unloaded.
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