Thank you, waiting until he just lays around, which will take all of about 30 minutes at any given time sounds good.
He has the eye drops cause his eyes are red on the bottom sometimes and he gets this stuff after he wakes up on his nose from his eyes. Kind of like the sandman use to come when I was growing up. I got the same kind of stuff in my eyes when I was a kid and my mom told me it must have been the sand man. One day she was taking me to school and she put in an 8 track tape in our Volvo and Played the America (at least I think that was the name of the group, I was like 4) tape (I have no idea which album) but any way there was a song on there about the sand man. I asked her if that was what she was talking about. From that point on she was more careful about analogies. Oh, sorry, I am rambling. Anyhow, thank you for the pointers, I will try the wait until exhausted thing.