FE_Chris
09-25-2007, 06:44 PM
Your Mom ever tell you that? Mine did, once atleast. Anyway, I'll admit it, sometimes I don't take things seriously....you know...like wearing saftety glass'!
Sunday morning I was readying a boat for the water, cutting a new strut bushing. I was using a dremmel tool and one of those cheap almost sand like cutting wheels. It shattered, it was early, I did not even have my regular glass' on. Something hit my eye, and it hurt! :cursing: but i was alright...I still went boating :buttrock: Later that day it started to bother me quite a bit....
My eye had been red and kinda itchy every sence. I flushed it, but still it did'nt feel right. I went to Pearle Vision and the doc there said I had a metal splinter in my cornea. Thats the clear covering over your eye incase someone did'nt know. THAT doctor told me that I was going to have to have my eye drilled on to get it out! I was like WHAT! He said I must go see a optomologyst ASAP and have it taken out.
I went to the opto. He sat me down, looked at my eye. Said "O yeah, I see it.." he dropped some numbing eye drops in my eye, waited a few minutes till my eye was numb (which now, tonight here of course my eye ball of all things is actually sore!) Then he took the needle and very slightly scratched the sliver right out of my eye. The "surgury" took him all of 30 seconds.....
He gave me some anti-biotic eye drops and sent me on my way. Good guy. Im fine. Just let this be a lesson. BE CAREFUL! I got into a hurry, and I ended up hurting myself, and my wallet. That doctor bill is a set of lipo's for pete sakes! :laugh:
Im fine, but I could have lost an eye. I will never work on anything with a dremmel without some kind of eye protection in the future. man....my eye sure does still hurt....... :o
Sunday morning I was readying a boat for the water, cutting a new strut bushing. I was using a dremmel tool and one of those cheap almost sand like cutting wheels. It shattered, it was early, I did not even have my regular glass' on. Something hit my eye, and it hurt! :cursing: but i was alright...I still went boating :buttrock: Later that day it started to bother me quite a bit....
My eye had been red and kinda itchy every sence. I flushed it, but still it did'nt feel right. I went to Pearle Vision and the doc there said I had a metal splinter in my cornea. Thats the clear covering over your eye incase someone did'nt know. THAT doctor told me that I was going to have to have my eye drilled on to get it out! I was like WHAT! He said I must go see a optomologyst ASAP and have it taken out.
I went to the opto. He sat me down, looked at my eye. Said "O yeah, I see it.." he dropped some numbing eye drops in my eye, waited a few minutes till my eye was numb (which now, tonight here of course my eye ball of all things is actually sore!) Then he took the needle and very slightly scratched the sliver right out of my eye. The "surgury" took him all of 30 seconds.....
He gave me some anti-biotic eye drops and sent me on my way. Good guy. Im fine. Just let this be a lesson. BE CAREFUL! I got into a hurry, and I ended up hurting myself, and my wallet. That doctor bill is a set of lipo's for pete sakes! :laugh:
Im fine, but I could have lost an eye. I will never work on anything with a dremmel without some kind of eye protection in the future. man....my eye sure does still hurt....... :o