Back in the saddle

Boondox · Feb 16, 2002

Hi guys! Had eye surgery last Wednesday (had an old piece of shrapnel removed and some muscle damage repaired) and was unable -- on doctor's orders -- to go outside till today. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gifBoy did I make up for it today, though! I must have plowed half of Vermont, and moved huge piles of snow just for the sake of practice!

I still look awful, eyes are completely bloodshot with no white showing...but if I stick out the lower lip and gaze at my wife with those teary, bloodshot eyes she pretty much lets me do anything I want! Hmmm, I wonder if I could get a new implement out of this...

Pete

Harv · Feb 16, 2002

Holy cow, Pete! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

How long were you running around with shrapnel in your eye? I hope getting it removed was more fun than getting it in there in the first place.

<font color=blue>I still look awful</font color=blue>

Nahhh... you still look the same to us. /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif Glad you're recovering okay, but if your wife is like mine, it's going to take a more important body part than just an eye to get enough sympathy for new tractor toys.

Boondox · Feb 16, 2002

It was embedded in the socket for almost 27 years, but it was only troublesome for the last three or so when it started wandering around interfering with things. The surgery went well. I showed up with fifteen pounds of freshly roasted coffee for all the nurses...they treated me like royalty! And with that great blood supply to the eyes, everything is healing very quickly.

Unfortunately, my wife and yours seem to be cut from the same block of wood. Plenty of sympathy, but not enough to earn me a new toy.

Pete

s1120 · Feb 16, 2002

Ow, I know where you are coming from. I had a peice of steel in my eye for a few weeks last fall. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif I got it from cutting a u joint out of the drive shaft on my Jeep. No safty glasses ofcorse. I know better now.

alan40 · Feb 16, 2002

Holy cow Pete, that sounds like some kind of experiance. That look would be good to scare some out-of-towners when they park by your place though!!!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
You must not be trying hard enough if you can't get another attachment out of this. Maybe a rotatiller so you can plant her favorite green things. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Take care,

Boondox · Feb 16, 2002

Well, I stared at her thru bloodshot eyes and said only a backhoe would make me feel better. She went over to my desk, flipped thru the Woods Backhoe brochure, then grabbed her keys and drove off. Man oh man did I have my hopes up...till she came home with a half gallon of ice cream!

Pete

RobertN · Feb 16, 2002

It's wonderful to get back out! Back in '95, I caught a virus that severely weakened muscles in my left eye. Went through batteries of tests, MRI, eeg, spinal tap, various iv drug therapies. The Spinal tap put me down for two weeks. If you've ever had the spinal tap head aches...

Then, they cut the muscles of the inside corners of both eyes, reattached to take up slack, and sent me along. My eyes were so sensitive to dust and breeze/wind, that for a few months I could do nothing out side.

It was great to be able to get back outside(even if it was pre-tractor days)

I am glad it worked out for you. Having your eyes messed with can be a nervous and scary thing.

Thomas · Feb 16, 2002

Glad to read everything turn out okay Pete and you got outside and relax.
Looks like little snow for Sunday..maybe some more seat time for you. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Harv · Feb 16, 2002

<font color=blue>she came home with a half gallon of ice cream!</font color=blue>

Now that's not so bad, is it?

frank_f15 · Feb 16, 2002

PETE: very glad to hear your eye is on the mend.always get nervous when the eye is envolved.now i know u love your tractor, and u like to buy new toys, but don't u think that when your bride is feeling sympathy for u , u migt be able to lift your sights just a tad?/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif