which came first?

It's an age-old question:

Which came first, the blunt optical trauma, or the pink-eye?

Is it a coincidence that J's eye injury seems to have spread to his second eye? Did he simultaneously receive a blow to his head and contract the pinkeye germ?

And isn't it reasonable that when your son is hit in the eye with an athletic ball, and their eye suddenly turns red and oozy, that even a sane Mom wouldn't consider pinkeye as the culprit? Even if both eyes suddenly seem to be affected two days later?

And why is it that the first person to even suggest to said oblivious Mom that it might be something contagious does so in a room filled with other kids, all within infecting-range of oozy-red-eyed boy for the past hour?

***sigh***

First we brought the nasty 3-week-long Upper Respiratory Flu to the homeschooling community. Now, courtesy of the same family, we bring you Pink Eye.

Uh, huh, we're THAT family. Popularity, it run in our veins....