On a scrounge yesterday loading up the trailer in high winds a piece of debris blow into my eye. I was wearing my prescription glasses and it still managed to get in. So about 4 hours later my eye is still crying. So after another 5 hrs in the er its determined that I have a scratched corona. I was just loading no equipment was running.
Back in my working days, I had a furnace install in a crawlspace. It had light bulbs installed that were in use at the time, of course. Well, I busted one of those light bulbs with my face and ended up with glass from the bulb in my eye! Yeow
This isn't the 1st eye injury I've had to the same eye a brief summary of my left eye: 1995 pick up football game. Finger in left eye. Couldn't see out of it for 2 days. Eye now permanently dilated. 2005 at work using a wire wheel on a angle grinder. Wire flies into left eye. Not wearing any eye protection. Shuttered lens. Three surgeries later have a cataract replacement lens. Now wear safety glasses AND face shield using power tools. 2021 loading firewood in trailer suddenly completely blind in left eye. Retinal detachment. Two surgeries later uncorrectable vision out of left eye. Now 2023 scratched corona. Outcome to be determined. So yeah my left eye is cursed
Getting stuff in your eye sucks. Happened to me all the time as a carpenter, usually it worked itself out if I couldn't get it out with a cue tip or eyewash. It's the worst when the bright light hits your sore eye.
I'm sorry, good luck with the sodium chloride eye drops. Both mine are pretty damaged from dry eye, only 30% of my glands are left, frankly I'm grateful for that sting sometimes because I know it will help the pain afterwards.
Thanks for concern. Went to ophthalmologist today. He wasn't too concerned. He said in 4-5 days it shouldn't bother me at all. A week of antibiotic eye drops then a follow-up visit.
My left thumb is the same curse. Crushed once and have had 140 some stitches in it over the years. It’s just fat and scarred and not a whole lot of feeling left in it.
I had on safety glasses, under goggles and behind a face shield. I was cutting overhead with a sawzall. I STILL got a piece of cast iron embedded in my eye. suspicion was that I had it on my finger tip and rubbed my eye and passed it into the eye. All it really takes.
I got something super irritating in my eye while walking across the yard a few years back...ended up being a metal splinter, that one almost caused some real problems as it started to rust in my eye. They only thing we could figure is that the metal was in my eyelash or eyebrow and the breeze blew it in my eye. (I had been grinding/cutting earlier in the day)
That sounds good. You've had enough eye problems. My left eye is bad too and has been since polio. So it is always a concern if something happens to the one eye that is working.
This happened to my son's friend; he was 11-12 years old when it happened. We were just splitting and stacking. He was wearing safety glasses too. He ended up having to go to the ER. I felt like crap about it.
