Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Fun times at urgent care...

I managed to rub a metal shard (aluminum oxide is great as an abrasive - and great at abrading your cornea, too!) into my eye yesterday so this morning through early afternoon was spent at the urgent care getting it removed and lots of weird crap put in my eyes. Numb eyeballs are a funny feeling.

Regardless, for everyone whose email I replied to very late, my apologies. I'll get on it tomorrow, I promise.


4 comments:

Feldy said...

Too bad you don't live in CO anymore. Medical MJ to help with your vision sounds more fun than whatever you got. Glad you're not blinded. [[Simpsons clip art not found]]

Sven said...

Oh, come on. It's only ONE eye. You've got TWO. Just imagine the fun of riding in the woods with no depth perception.

Cracked Headtube said...

I got a fleck of steel in my eye back in 09. it sat there all day until I tried to go to sleep. Since your eye are always moving the metal was scratching the inside of my eyelid. The fleck was directly in the center of my pupil. I could see it with a magnifying mirror. ER visit for me too. It had rusted to my eye and the pointed, hollow tip of a syringe was used to pop it off. After that a rotary tool was used to buff the ring of rust away. Most awkward feeling I had ever had. Hope all is well with you now. I had no problems what so ever.

BigHank53 said...

I had a cutoff wheel shatter on me and a bitty chunk of the abrasive ricocheted off my cheek, bounced off the inside of my safety glasses, and wound up trapped under my upper eyelid, where it gouged the living hell out of my eye socket before I managed to get it out with an improvised hook. (I used plastic-coated wire for the hook so as not to cause further damage.) Then off to the ER to have someone else look at it and see if there were any bits left behind. Eye injuries suck.