Always wear your safety glasses...

[Loose_Nuts_Enterprises]

in the garage.

Yesterday morning, I'm cutting some steel with a chop saw, when I feel something hit me in the eye. No biggie, it's happened before, but the watering eye/blurriness isn't going away. It doesn't hurt or feel irritated, so I took a quick look in the mirror. Right, dead center, in my pupil, I can see a small curved line..... Great! I give a friend a call ( who just happens to be an optometrist) So off to the office on a Sunday morning. At first, it only looks like a tear in the membrane over the lens, that has a flap that is folded over. He cleans it up, to take a better look, and can see a small piece of debris about .10mm x .3mm. Being directly in the sight path, he didn't want to go digging. He put a bandage contact lens over it (so it wouldn't get irritated by constant blinking, gave me some antibiotic drops and to call him in the morning.

Today, my doctor friend made me an appointment with a "cornea specialist"
After two hours in the doc's office, he concluded that what ever was in there yesterday, is no longer there, with mo rust rings or anything bad or harmful, other than the abrasion itself. He also said it was expertly dressed by my friend, and has already given a huge start on the healing. Still a little blurry-eyed, but that should go away in the next week.

SO WEAR YOUR FREAKIN SAFETY GLASSES!!!!
And nobody tell Scott (Clean-RC) that his bumper is getting welded with one eye closed :eeks1:

-Dan

[BrettM]

i've got a friend that needed eye surgery from a similar experience, except he was wearing safety glasses! now he usually sports a full-face shield over safety glasses.

glad to hear it didn't turn out to bad

[Loose_Nuts_Enterprises]

i've got a friend that needed eye surgery from a similar experience, except he was wearing safety glasses! now he usually sports a full-face shield over safety glasses.

glad to hear it didn't turn out to bad

Have you ever seen those Asian women driving around with the full face tinted face shield things?? They look like something out of a star wars movie!

Anyway, thanks for your concern.

-Dan

[cracker]

Have you ever seen those Asian women driving around with the full face tinted face shield things??

http://jimbolaya.blogspot.com/visor.jpg
this fine apparatus is the latest and greatest in the older asian female market. the preferred use is while driving, and hangs much like a welding shield over the face. oftentimes, it accompanies a long sleeved shirt, turned around backwards in a "smock" style, and of course, driving gloves to boot.

:D

[Loose_Nuts_Enterprises]

Dood!!! That exactly what I was talking about!

[johnnyc]

Have you ever seen those Asian women driving around with the full face tinted face shield things?? They look like something out of a star wars movie!

Anyway, thanks for your concern.

-Dan

It's not only Asian women.

I have one too.

[Loose_Nuts_Enterprises]

It's not only Asian women.

I have one too.

Apparantley, you wear it while wheeling, if your driving skills are anything like the asian women.

[johnnyc]

Apparantley, you wear it while wheeling, if your driving skills are anything like the asian women.

Boy, I guess I set myself up for that one. :laugh3:

[Clean Racing]

in the garage.


SO WEAR YOUR FREAKIN SAFETY GLASSES!!!!
And nobody tell Scott (Clean-RC) that his bumper is getting welded with one eye closed :eeks1:

-Dan

What What??? Hey now... I can wait a few more days if need be... Ive waited this long.... No seriously take your time and get better... Thanks Dan...

Scott.

[Loose_Nuts_Enterprises]

Boy, I guess I set myself up for that one. :laugh3:

Sorry, man. I couldn't resist...

[Loose_Nuts_Enterprises]

What What??? Hey now... I can wait a few more days if need be... Ive waited this long.... No seriously take your time and get better... Thanks Dan...

Scott.

Scott, I think I'll take you up on that. I have to keep my blurry eye closed when looking at the computer screen, or else I get a headache...

[johnnyc]

Scott, I think I'll take you up on that. I have to keep my blurry eye closed when looking at the computer screen, or else I get a headache...

Hell, if it takes you so long to make a bumper, maybe I should put my order in now. I wanna put one of your bumpers on whatever replacement vehicle I decide on.

[Loose_Nuts_Enterprises]

Hell, if it takes you so long to make a bumper, maybe I should put my order in now. I wanna put one of your bumpers on whatever replacement vehicle I decide on.

Johnny, you can have the one on Sequoia's jeep. He doesn't even drive that one any more anyway.

[Jump This]

I have always found that the numbing agent used during eye surgery or repair agrees with me greatly!!
Pharmasutical cocain!!(Cracker, did I spell that right?)
not that I have ever had the misfortune of inbedding a shard into my cornea!!
Rick R :sunshine: forget the damn sunshine...its friggin' :flame: out here!

[cracker]

Pharmasutical cocain!!(Cracker, did I spell that right?)

NO (as usual :D )

Pharmaceutical cocaine

[xDUMPTRUCKx]

in the garage.

Yesterday morning, I'm cutting some steel with a chop saw, when I feel something hit me in the eye. No biggie, it's happened before, but the watering eye/blurriness isn't going away. It doesn't hurt or feel irritated, so I took a quick look in the mirror. Right, dead center, in my pupil, I can see a small curved line..... Great! I give a friend a call ( who just happens to be an optometrist) So off to the office on a Sunday morning. At first, it only looks like a tear in the membrane over the lens, that has a flap that is folded over. He cleans it up, to take a better look, and can see a small piece of debris about .10mm x .3mm. Being directly in the sight path, he didn't want to go digging. He put a bandage contact lens over it (so it wouldn't get irritated by constant blinking, gave me some antibiotic drops and to call him in the morning.

Today, my doctor friend made me an appointment with a "cornea specialist"
After two hours in the doc's office, he concluded that what ever was in there yesterday, is no longer there, with mo rust rings or anything bad or harmful, other than the abrasion itself. He also said it was expertly dressed by my friend, and has already given a huge start on the healing. Still a little blurry-eyed, but that should go away in the next week.

SO WEAR YOUR FREAKIN SAFETY GLASSES!!!!
And nobody tell Scott (Clean-RC) that his bumper is getting welded with one eye closed :eeks1:

-Dan
I did the same thing one time. I was shooting wires into concrete overhead with a hilti gun and the debris shot down and felt like sand in the eye.......3 days later at 1 am I couldn't sleep and went to the emergency room, sooooo painful started to swell and hurt worse, by 5am I had an optical specialist putting dye into my eye and using a tattoo gun like thing to loosen the little metal chunk right on my pupil in my line of sight and then he simply took a scapul removed the metal and put it in a little plastic tube for me to keep. I had a large rust ring that's what the tattoo gun was for. Crazy huh

[Jump This]

NO (as usual :D )

Pharmaceutical cocaine



DAMB IT!!! I giv up!
:D

[djblade311]

DAMB IT!!! I giv up!
:D

haha. Perhaps we could ask the webmaster to install spellchecker for Rick. lol

:read:

[Bent]

SO WEAR YOUR FREAKIN SAFETY GLASSES!!!!

-Dan

Duh!
:twak:


I wear hearing protection too.

[RobertF]

I was wearing safety glasses while using a wire "cup" wheel with a right angle grinder on a welding project, when a wire hit me in the cheek and bounced under my glasses into my eye.
It was Aug 13th, last year.
The spiral twisted wire was stuck in my eye and I couldn't blink, eyelid was stopping on the wire hanging 1/2" out of my eye.
Drove myself to the hospital one handed with a stickshift while holding my eyelid open with my other hand.
$4800 to the surgen and other multible hundreds to the x-rays, the guy that reads them, the anethiesiologest, the assistant nurses, and the E.R.
Having stitches in my eye was a very uncomfortable thing, not as painfull as broken bones sticking out of the flesh, but a every second uncomfort for days, couldn't sleep, Iv'e slept with broken bones.
I have been working in shop conditions for forty years and this was a fluke kind of accident, but it happened.
I now use a face shield with shrouded safety glasses under it.
Protect your eyes, they are truly a gift.

[GSequoia]

I'm anal about glasses too, I keep a set in each Jeep. When I'm doing something risky I tend to wear both glasses and a shield as well.

Also since I've already done enough hearing damage between loud tools and concerts wheneverr the angle grinder comes out so does my hearing protection.

[Jump This]

One thing I have found useful. I get a set of welding/brazing goggles and use them as my safty glasses when things are flying. Find the lightest tint you can get (I'm not sure what it is) and they keep all the crap out. Since I work out in the sunshine the tinting isn't a problem. When I am grinding in the shop (I at least try to do most of that outside) I use motorcycle goggles. I hate looking thru scratched lenses and as yet have not found a way to keep from scratching the crap out of fold down shields.
Ear protection...
Hand protection...
Sun screen...
Gotta' have them.
Rick R:flame:

[Loose_Nuts_Enterprises]

I'm usually pretty good about that kind of stuff....learned a goooooood lesson. My vision is almost 100% as of this morning :laugh3: so, I'm gonna skip the M&G tonite, and take care of some orders that need to go out.

I'm just glad I didn't end up like this...:scottm: Arrrrrr!

-Dan

[djblade311]

crap. I've been lucky. While installing my rock rails, I was drilling the pinch seam and frame and got a little piece o metal in my eye. Hurt like a summabitch. After two hours, my wife finally got it out even though I was cussing and bitchin the whole time. It was stuck between the eye and the bottom lid. Had to pull the lid away while she swiped it with a q-tip

[Bent]

I was wearing safety glasses while using a wire "cup" wheel with a right angle grinder on a welding project, when a wire hit me in the cheek and bounced under my glasses into my eye.


In California, full face shields are required on employees when using a wire brush, not a bad lesson for the fest of us. I've got some "bug eyed" glasses that I really like, they fit snug all the way around the eyes. As far as the hearing goes I prefer the twist-in foam to the head set type. They don't give me a headache but it takes a little practice to get them in right.


Dan, good to hear your eye is going to be alright, dummy!

:D

[Loose_Nuts_Enterprises]

Dan, good to hear your eye is going to be alright, dummy!

:D

Yeah, thanks. So far it's working well. :smoker:

[FELIX]

Yep, only takes 1x to make a believer out of you. Glad it'll be ok. Eyes & ears always my friend :lecture: Does it itch yet? If not, I'm sure it will. Ask me how I know :rolleyes:

Good luck with the healing

Rob