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    lord they suck....I got a piece of metal stuck in (not on, IN) my eye on saturday. directly on top of my pupil. We went to the urgent care center sunday morning after a sleepless night of pain and tears. The urgent care center doc said it was obviously irritated but couldn't seem to find any foreign body. she gave me some drops and assured me i'd be fine.

    I went to work monday, a scary 45 minute ride up I95N through Baltimore. Try as i may, i stayed till 3:45 or so when i called my boss begging him to let me go home. Another terrifying ride back down I95S and i was home. my wife took a look at me and said "call your aunt" (a nurse practitioner) which led to the decision to go back to the doc. This time we went to John Hopkins where the Wilmer Eye Center has an Opthalmologist on call 24/7. 5 hours in the waiting room, and a 10 second glance into my eyes, the doc said "yup, there it is. sit tight, we'll snatch that out". an HOUR worth of digging into my eyeball with a needle has 90% of the issue resolved. whew. took a tetanus shot and the day off yesterday, and i'm working from home today, one eyed.

    so...moral of the story? even though i was wearing a a face shield, be sure to wear goggles when you're cutting/grinding/welding. eyes are a precious thing. a daunting task of watching the websites for registration information two eyed has become a near impossible task one eyed, lol.
    Last edited by Matt Walter; February 19, 2014, 06:47 AM.
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    Glad you're OK Matt. I don't know how many times I have gotten something in my eye by thinking just my glasses would be enough. Great reminder for all of us.
    On the good side, I see the DW gods are preparing you for your adventure. Driving in pain with one eye on a scary I-95 is good training!

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    • #3
      haha, true story! yeah it's always the "this is a quick job, let me just take care of it" kind of things that get ya. a year and a half ago i got two small pieces of metal ON my eye. that was bad enough. i wore glasses religiously after that. my beef with glasses or goggles is they always fog. well this experience tells me that no fogging in the world is worse than what i'm going through. my left eye works about as good as opening your eyes in a mud puddle right now, lol.
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      • #4
        I've had an eye specialist tell me "it will rust out" before?!! The last time I got something in my eye, it was from taking the goggles off. That incident really PMRFO, I'm never careful enough and when I try? Whammo.

        Hope there's no long term effects .. man, anything that close to your brain seems to hurt all the worse.
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        • #5
          I know a guy who got a piece of metal that worked its way behind his eye. They removed his eye to clean behind it.....yuck!
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          • #6
            yes it will rust. what i'm dealing with right now is the rust ring left by the piece of metal. i have to go back and they're going to use a rotory tool of sorts to dig the last bit out. my imagination has it to be a medical version of a die-grinder to burrow out the rest of the rust. lol
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            • #7
              I got a piece of hot welding rod in my eye at work... they ended up sending me to
              a specialist ... when he said he was gonna have to scrap my eye to get the molten
              piece out I sorta freaked out(no one goes near my eyes).. I told him he better give
              me a shot to put my ugly ass OUT... he did and got the piece out... later he said he
              was glad he did put me out... it didnt go real well.... I've had a few surgeries on my
              one eye now and they always put me out

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              • #8
                i was 100% conscious and my "job" was to be sure i held my head still and against the strap of one of those eye exam contraptions. i wasn't even restrained. he yelled at me at one point cause i pulled back while he was digging in my eye. i could hear everything he did. it was a horrible experience.
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                • #9
                  Not fun at all. Glad they got you fixed up.

                  Worst I ever got was a piece of aluminum. That would take a while to rust out. Look me up at DW and I will tell you about my dad's (John Deere mecanic also) "famous" metal event. I think that accident report is still floating around the Deere world. And it happened in the mid-60's.
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                  • #10
                    I am a chickin shit when it comes to my eyes...I cant even put drops in them
                    without help so someone (or me) has to hold the lids open.... when I was at the
                    docs office on that incident I told him that I do freak out and he MIGHT get punched..
                    I did that to my heart doctor when I woke up on the table and freaked... he didnt
                    like that a bit

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                    • #11
                      i was doing really well for the first little bit. it got to where he was literally holding my eye open, and was pushing on my eye so hard i was starting to black out. i couldn't handle that, my eye was beginning to dart all over the place. that's when he said lets give it a rest for the night.
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                      • #12
                        Wait till they take that rust ring out they use a engraver to remove it... after it heals and you go swimming you will see a squiggly line reflection from the water...
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                        • #13
                          ive been there too many times..heres a trick I found will get stuff out ,if you can see it.use a q-tip to slide over the metal ,most times it will get caught in the q-tip. the worst part of having them drill the rust ring is seeing the bit as it starts grinding your eye.

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                          • #14
                            When to happened to me the doctor used a magnet to pull the steel out. When I had lasik they gave me valium wide awake in lala land.
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                            • #15
                              Been there and done that! I was getting ready to go to the Winter Nationals one year, the last thing I had to do was put the trailer wheels back on after doing the bearings and brakes, the lug wrench slipped off the lug nut and broke my glasses, a sliver of glass went into my left eye and slit my pupil, they operated on me that night and I had to stay awake for the operation, they told me they stitched it back together with "cat gut", I still have a fondness for Purina to this day!
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