Eye injury working around the pond..Dammit!!

[Brutuscz]

This just happened yesterday..so, I'm still recovering. I was raking out some dead plants and weeds behind my pond. My wife called me to come in and help with the baby. I went inside, and leaned over the baby to kiss her. Suddenly..I felt something stab me in the eye. Painful as h-ll, to say the least. I ran to the bathroom and flushed the eye with baby shampoo and water. It was no better. I took antihistamines in case it was an allergic reaction to the weeds..but it did nothing. Stayed home from work today and went to the opthamologist. He numbed the eye with anasthesia..and flushed it...and searched. Well, he thought it was out..whatever it was. My wife started to drive me home. Halfway home the anasthesia wears off and the pain is even worse than before...excruciating. We turn around and head back. They take me right in a search in my eye some more, with no anasthesia this time. Well, under my upper eye lid was a small thorn or splinter of some sort. It was sticking out and poking my eye each time I blinked or moved my eye. It has scratched the surface of my eye..but it should heal within 24hrs. They removed the thorn and had another doctor come in to check for more. I was sent home after. I took a nap. I woke up and rubbed my eye....and another thorn/splinter was in my hand. So, thats 2...and I think it's all of them. I didn't mention I am blind in the other eye from an accident when I was a child. So, I was a little too close to needing a dog other than the two I already have!!! All feels well now...just need to use antibiotic drops for a day. But...Please...when you do your outside work...please wear protective eyewear!!!! I have definitely learned my lesson the hard way!!!

[aquitori]

That's good your okay....

[LadySusan]

I'm glad everything turned out well...and thanks for the advice. I rather have anything else to hurt on my body than the eye area. I once had a bungie cord bounce back into my eye so I sorta know how you feel.

[Russell Peters]

I am glad to hear you will be alright. Years ago I was cutting some cast iron pipe with a grinder. I was not wearing goggles and I got a few shards in my eyes. I am very stubborn so I put up with the pain for a few days. Did I mention Kari was out of town? It was very hard to even see but I got myself to the hospital. It seems the cast iron had rusted on my corneas and the doctor said that he would have to grind the rust off. He put some anesthetic in my eyes and used a dremel tool to grind the rust off. It was really strange because I had to be awake and I was watching the dremel tool as it was grinding my eye.
The doctor asked if I had anyone to drive me home, and because he would not let me leave unless I said yes, I lied and was able to drive myself home. About halfway home the medication wore off and I could no longer see. Some how I made it home and just as I got into bed and put my dark glasses on, Kari came home from LA and asked, as she saw me laying in bed with dark glasses on, what are you thinking?

[Brutuscz]

Quote: Originally Posted by Russell Peters I am glad to hear you will be alright. Years ago I was cutting some cast iron pipe with a grinder. I was not wearing goggles and I got a few shards in my eyes. I am very stubborn so I put up with the pain for a few days. Did I mention Kari was out of town? It was very hard to even see but I got myself to the hospital. It seems the cast iron had rusted on my corneas and the doctor said that he would have to grind the rust off. He put some anesthetic in my eyes and used a dremel tool to grind the rust off. It was really strange because I had to be awake and I was watching the dremel tool as it was grinding my eye. The doctor asked if I had anyone to drive me home, and because he would not let me leave unless I said yes, I lied and was able to drive myself home. About halfway home the medication wore off and I could no longer see. Some how I made it home and just as I got into bed and put my dark glasses on, Kari came home from LA and asked, as she saw me laying in bed with dark glasses on, what are you thinking?

It's really wild how they work on you and your watching it!!! Of course...the wife and my mother(who was in the optical business for 30yrs) had to lecture me repeatedly. I'm sure you got the same. I'm wearing protective goggles from now on...can't appreciate a koi if you can't SEE the koi!!!

[Russell Peters]

Quote: Originally Posted by Brutuscz It's really wild how they work on you and your watching it!!! Of course...the wife and my mother(who was in the optical business for 30yrs) had to lecture me repeatedly. I'm sure you got the same. I'm wearing protective goggles from now on...can't appreciate a koi if you can't SEE the koi!!!

Well, I wish I could say the same. I am a general contractor and I did some work for the UC Medical Center in San Francisco. I was hired to remove a door, frame up the opening, drywall and finish it so that they could out up a mural. I had to set up late at night and I thought I would be alone. I got out my sawzall and began cutting out the matal frame from the door. After a few minutes a gaggle of eye doctors, yes I was working in opthamology, came around the corner. They all kept walking, so I thought I wouldn't hear it, but then one of them came back and gave me the lecture on what could happen when you don't wear your safety goggles.

I still haven't learned.