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[Anonymous]

Picked this up from another forum:

On Thursday I was standing a bit too close to the guy at work using the grinder and got a bit of hot metal melted into my eye!
I was hoping it would come out on its own!
I tried playing with it but its firmly in there so today I'm off to hospital to get it fixed!
I know Lancaster Royal Infirmary is one of the best hospitals I have seen but I'm terrified at the thought letting someone play with my eyeball!

...of course, it always happens to somebody else :roll:

Eye protection... Every Time :!:

 

[TEP]

Dead right Graham, as you say every time. Although as I wear glasses all the time I often lapse putting on any eye protection.

Reminder - Must concentrate in future. My eyes may be wearing out, but you do only get one pair.

 

[Anonymous]

It was a timely reminder for me to practise what I preach :shock:

(psst... don't tell anyone :lol: )

 

[duncanh]

Having had a recent eye injury I am now even more careful about protection.

I was on a working party with local wildlife trust helping pick litter in an ancient woodland. As I was reaching under a holly bush a branch sprang back and a leaf scratched my face. A little painful but not too bad. The next day I was in absolute agony Turns out that I'd scratched my cornea. Luckily it's now back to normal.

Corneas can be transplanted but it really isn't worth the risk. I wear a visor whenever I'm in my workshop, no matter what I'm doing.

 

[boysie39]

Graham, 20yrs ago I got a piece of steel in my eye whilst driving a truck from the Sth.of France .it was in my eye until I reached Dover 3days later. by that time I was nearly gone mad with the pain. I hated the thought of my eye being interfered with. A custom offical brought me up to the hospital in Dover. They had a look and told me they wanted me to look into what looks now like an eye tester. The Doc. said I would feel a small puff of air and 10secs. later he showed me a piece of metal about 1"16 of an inch long. Iwas given some cream for to use in the eye and drove to Holyhead and was in Dublin next morning.
The moral of the story is I have never been afraid to have any hospital treatment since and I've had a fair share, But dont drive to Holyhead and catch the Ferry. Good luck Boysie
Sorry Graham I thought it was you. If you get onto that site again tell yer man to wear his eye protection at all times ,And the fast Ferries are the best Boysie

 

[Anonymous]

Sláinte Boysie :wink:

 

[CHJ]

In my mid teens I had the misfortune to have a little bit of molten solder shot across a workbench into my eye by someone using a soldering iron to lever a wire loose from a terminal.
Apart from a few swear words and the impression of looking through Flemish glass for a few days nothing else materialized for about 40 years until I was diagnosed with growing scar tissue on my cornea, most probably from the solder injury and not deemed significant until it affected my vision.

Resultant treatment, and this is the bit to make duncanh squirm, I ended up in Gloucester Hospital where the surgeon proceeded to rasp the scar (basically a calcium scab) from my cornea under local anesthetic and sent me home with the advice to take some Paracetamol and countermanded the anaesthetist who wanted to prescribe something stronger of a morphine base.

Had I been able to get up off the floor over the next 12 hours (where I was making a very good impression of a demented soul) that particular surgeon would have found just how uncomfortable a little rasp can be.

 

[duncanh]

like Paracetamol was going to be effective!
I was told to take ibuprofen. I'm also taking 3 prescribed pain killers for headaches at the moment. Even so it felt hot needles were being inserted for 2 days