“His eye was protruding from his face,” she said in a viral Facebook post. “It was very obscured. He was running a raging fever.
“I cried the entire drive to a larger hospital, praying that he wouldn’t lose his eye.
“The next week was pretty scary. He had severe cellulitis that eventually spread down his face and to both eyes. They warned me that he may lose vision in the worse eye, but in the end, thank the Lord his eyes healed.”
The cause of his infection was a squirting bath toy.
“I came to find out later that because the water is never fully expelled from those types of toys that they can just grow bacteria that you can’t stop,” she said.
Eden kept on posting unpleasant pictures from her son’s infection to warn other parents. The post has been shared by more than 322,000 people and seen by millions of people. Other parents also shared pictures of their kids with the same problem.
Strong hopes that manufacturers will take this seriously when producing the next batch of similar toys.
Even since the accident, she threw all the squeezable toys in the trash.
“I think those toys especially are cute. They’re fun. They’re cheap and they’re easy, but it’s not worth it.”
What this family had to go through, I am glad the poor boy recovered well.
