eye injury

[EddieWalker]

My eye enjury happened while diving with the window open in town. It was a very hot day out and either because of the wind, or traffic, some sand got into my eye. I made the mistake of rubbing my eye. I never even thought about it, I just did it.

The pain wasn't so bad, but it was persistant. I ignored it for a day, but the next day it was still bothering me. The eye doctor took a look and got all excited. He went and got another doctor and then the got the camera out. This was a first for them!!!

I had cut and pealed a layer of skin off of my eyeball and it was folded over. He described it as looking like a grape with the skin partially pealed off. He said there was nothing that he could do and to let nature fix it on it's own. He did give me some cream to stop infection that I had to use for two weeks. I just put some of the cream inside my bottom eyelid and closed my eye. The eyelid spread it over my eye ball. Of course, this left a haze over my vission that lasted for a few hours.

In a few days, the pain was gone, but I kept using the cream for the full two weeks. I couldn't drive with it in as my depth perseption wasn't reliable. Sometimes I was fine, but other times, I was just a little off.

Sorry to hear about your injury. It's always the silly things that we never expect that cause the most problems.

Eddie

 

[AlanB]

Man, I hate it for you, I unfortunately know that felling a little too well, and I wear Safety glasses anytime I want to be able to see...

The one thing I believe you have done, but it is worth saying again in my opinion, is to go see an EYE specialist.

There is just a differenece in the quality of care you get from the eye guy, who deals with eyes all the time.

Last time, I put the optomotrist to the test, called him at 2130 and met him in the office, the worst part is watching them come towards your eye with a big pick like an o-ring pick for me.

It did feel oh-soooo good when he got that chunk of metal out (from under the safety glasses).

 

[texbaylea]

Like tillerkiller I have all my glasses made up as safety glasses. I have worn glasses all my life and don't expect to go to these new fangled things. I do have incipient cataracts that will require having something done one of these days but not soon I hope.

Vernon

 

[jimmer2880]

......The one thing I believe you have done, but it is worth saying again in my opinion, is to go see an EYE specialist.

There is just a differenece in the quality of care you get from the eye guy, who deals with eyes all the time.......

Been there, Got the shirt.

Was stick welding and got some welding slag on my eyeball (smack in the middle of the iris). Insurance wasn't the greatest, so went to see the family doc. When I climbed down off of the ceiling after she tried to pick the blister off of my eyeball with a q-tip, I went to the eye doc. He re-affirmed that what she was trying to pick off was a blister. After looking at it for a while, he put some meds in it, which made it feel much better, gave me some salve to put in my eye and sent me on my way.

 

[ampsucker]

anybody have a good recommendation for safety glasses? i wear regular glasses, but feel that just getting safety lenses put in isn't going to be good enough for the type of work i do. most of my frames are pretty small to fit my face and don't provide much protection.

normally, i try to find plastic type goggles or safety glasses with rims that are large enough to fit over my regular glasses. the problem is, they are all made of cheapo plastic and after a few weeks of getting tossed around the truck, tool boxes, etc. they get all scratched up and are too difficult to see out of. it starts to feel less safe actually wearing the safety lenses because they are so hard to see through!

i do a lot of weed wacking all summer and always wear the safeties when working with drills, grinders, welder, etc. i just need a good pair that are made of something like glass or actually have a coating that is worth a darn.

i've thought of investing in one of those face shields the professional lawn and garden guys use, but they seem like they might be a bit cumbersome.

any ideas???

 

[riptides]

I suppose glasses could protect the sphincter but only if you were bent over with your head in a very bizarre and compromising position.

Did you mean iris?

No, there is a sphincter in the eye as well. It works between the iris and pupil causing the pupil to dialate.

It is just a name for a muscle that pulls and pushes accordingly.



-Mike Z.

 

[IslandTractor]

No, there is a sphincter in the eye as well. It works between the iris and pupil causing the pupil to dialate.

It is just a name for a muscle that pulls and pushes accordingly.



-Mike Z.

My bad. The thought of wearing glasses to protect my sphincter never occurred to me before.

 

[AlanB]

Ampsucker, I guess to clarify,
I wear rated, tested and approved ANSI safety glasses with prescription lenses.

I believe that the spec says Z-87-2 inside there, but hey, I have to take them off to read it so what do you expect

That said, I do not often wear the side sheilds that have to be there to have the rating (but they do come with the glasses) the side shields tend to mess with my head.

The way I keep my glasses from getting too scratched up, is they are always on my head.

If you have some "safety" glasses, that you just wear when needed (which is what my wife does) then I think you are doomed too just replacing them often. What works for us is buy in bulk from Sams club, and just change them out often. I wish they would take better care of them, and I can sit and complain about it, or just write it off as the cost of doing business, seing as how it is my wife and kids eyes, I buy them in bulk........

(and occasionally carp that they are not taking care of stuff as they should ) Now if I could just get them to check the oil levels on the equipment.

 

[riptides]

My bad. The thought of wearing glasses to protect my sphincter never occurred to me before.

I don't wear glasses to protect the other one.



-Mike Z.

 

[jimmysisson]

I often think about this working in the woods. I have a hardhat/ears/face screen combo but put the screen up in between cuts. Been slapped a few times but still don't wear the safety specs due to sweat messing them up so quick. It would be a good idea though...
Jim