- Location
- Yucaipa, CA
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
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