Ouch!

[Berlin]

So today I was using the Yorkie Chris Approved method of Squinting whist using a grinder...

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A hot piece of aluminium shot off and caught me in the left eye where it actually sizzled! :o

Now this hurt! A lot! after initially being blind I slowly started to get my sight back but everything was a watery blur and I had really dodgy depth perception.

After about an hour I was improving to the point where it could open my eye but I couldn't help repeatedly blinking. Now this wouldn't ordinarily be a problem, but I needed fags... and I've got the best 70's Porn Star Mo going on at the moment :D

So there I was in Sainsbury's, Winking like a madman and looking for all the world like a village people dude! :)

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It was great! :D :D :D

C

PS, Yorkie Chris' Squinting technique doesn't work. Wear Specs!

[minimorecambe]

And you can see now I take it????

[Berlin]

Still winking... atcha ;)

[Bibio]

get yerself to the eye pavilion m8. it may seem to be getting better but trust me it may get a loooot worse.

[Venom]

Hmmm Health and Safety would have a field day! Hope there isn't any lasting damage

[Bluepete]

You dirty winker you!

I thought Yorkshiremen were supposed to be tough!

One little bit of soft bendy metal and you cry like a southener...

Pete ;)

[minimorecambe]

A&E for an eye washout :)

[DarrenSV650S]

Got a bit of concrete in my eye at work and it was hell. Had to go get an eye wash and that still didn't get it out. So he gave me a liquid to put in to numb my eye. That helped but it still took 2 days to clear properly.

I have a pair of safety specs in my tool box now :)



I would never grind without specs. That's just asking for trouble ;)

[barwel1992]

never got any thing sharp in my eye but have had brake fluid,chain lube and salt and pepper out of that lot salt and pepper was by far the worse

id get it washed out down A&E if i were you

[beabert]

Carb cleaner always gets me, comes out too fast, cement wasnt nice either.

[Specialone]

get yerself to the eye pavilion m8. it may seem to be getting better but trust me it may get a loooot worse.
+1
I would go get it looked at.
I had a piece of wood rotate from a rubbish bucket a few weeks ago and hit me square in the right eye so hard i felt my eye move, i had blurred vision for over a week, but considering my wife works in opthamology, i didnt go get it checked out, much to her annoyance.
I occasionally get a white flash in the right hand side of my periphial vision which could be a down to my retina detaching.
Our eyes are so precious and a 1 shot deal, you cant just go and buy a new pair.

I have always been an eye protection person most of the time, especially with power tools but when im doing non power stuff i hardly ever wear them but that seems the the most times i get problems.
Plasterboard dust is terrible as well, cos when you rub your eye, the dust is abrasive and scratches your cornea, the fine 'lense' covering your eyeball, damage that and goodbye clear vision.

[thulfi]

it actually sizzled? go get your eye checked out like ppl havE suggested just in case mate.

have you covered the good eye and tried to find out what you can see, and if u can fight the blinking?

[Ed]

Get thy hiney to the eye hozzie!!!!

I have a good eye story. It was October 1986, and my ma had some beautiful geraniums in pots outside. It was getting frosty, so I decided to shift them into the garage. So out I went, shifted nearly all, on the last one I bent down to pick up the pot and there was this sharp jab in my left eye. It was dark and I hadn't seen the bamboo cane. Owwwww. Didn't think that much more of it though, shifted the pot and went to bed. Next morning it felt like I had a kango hammer going in there and I couldn't open it, so off to A&E, where they managed to squeeze some drops in it and an eye surgeon then removed several splinters of broken bamboo from the white bit. Big eye patch but it still got infected, went on for months, I was wearing shaes in December cos it was still so sensitive:rolleyes:

[Berlin]

A&E for an eye washout :)

In the words of french and Saunders, "Stuff and nonsense, Its just a flesh wound!"

Fine this morning :)

C

[punyXpress]

THAT --> " and I've got the best 70's Porn Star Mo going " is the reason you're blinking.
Ask @ eye clinic for a ' Pudsey Bear ' patch & you'll save giving to Children in Need. That'll save a few pence.

[BigBaddad]

This might help....http://www.centurionsafety.co.uk/

also helps with my PRP

[andrewsmith]

C

get a pick of the Porn Star tasche up!!
At least it aint welding flash

[minimorecambe]

In the words of french and Saunders, "Stuff and nonsense, Its just a flesh wound!"

Fine this morning :)

C

Glad you havnt gone blind :cyclops:

[missyburd]

As long as the foreign object isn't still floating about in there....

Glad it's not worse...you hope :-P

[Venom]

Glad you havnt gone blind :cyclops:

I got told there's only one thing that makes you go blind





:toss:

[minimorecambe]

I got told there's only one thing that makes you go blind





:toss:

*snigger*

[andrewsmith]

Venom put that in the comedy thread :lol:

[Nobbylad]

Best to get it checked out, if you ever need to go for an MRI scan and you have bits of metal in your eye...you'll know about it!

[timwilky]

I have had the fun of having a foreign body removed from an eye. The pain was horrendous and off I went to A&E, whilst the daughter worked there so I knew a few and I get straight in to see AJ the consultant.

But before I get into the eye room he meets me at the door. We have some students would you mind them being in with you. No problem, mistake.

So in I go. AJ says for the students (5 of them). "Well Mr Wilkinson, what is your problem". Me, "I have a foreign body in my left eye"

Him, please rest your chin on this bar and try not to blink (No chance of that it hurts everytime I do it). So I do it.

Yes Mr Wilkinson There does seem to be something there, and he invites every student to look in turn at my sore eye. So after about 5 minutes of the students he says, "What would you like me to do", "Remove it please" At which points he smiles and agrees to do it, flicks the machine so the students can see my eye on a screen whilst I hold my eye open as what looks like a 6 inch nail approaches my eye.
2 seconds later the foreign body is removed, drops inserted and a pad not to be removed for 24 hours because of the antithetic drops put over my eye and sent on my way.

On the way out he thanks me as he has been waiting all week to give the students the opportunity to play with an eye. Next day I get a thank you note from him addressed to Michelle's dad to say Wear goggles next time.


Oh and if anyone wants real eye/head pain, try a welding flash. It feels like 6 inch nails knocked through your eyes into your brain. Ouch Ouch Ouch

[flymo]

I got a metal splinter embedded in my eye whilst using a grinder without specs. I had to sit there in hospital while a surgeon removed the offending article using some aneasthetic and a pair of tweezers........yeah you can see everything thats going on.

That was one time too many for me, specs every time now :-)

[Nobbylad]

Oh and if anyone wants real eye/head pain, try a welding flash. It feels like 6 inch nails knocked through your eyes into your brain. Ouch Ouch Ouch

I remember that pain....when I was an apprentice, my boss was welding some industrial heating pipes. He had no spare goggles/shield so told me to do something else and under no circumstances, look at him welding.

2am the next morning I'm awoken by what can only be described as the feeling of someone setting fire to my eyes at the same time as pouring acid into them...worst pain in my eyes EVER.

[yorkie_chris]

So there I was in Sainsbury's, Winking like a madman and looking for all the world like a village people dude! :)

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:gviJWDBu-GPCrM:http://blog-imgs-36.fc2.com/r/o/n/ronna1210/VillagePeopleGuy.jpg&t=1

It was great! :D :D :D!

Why the bloody hell were you dressed like that in the garage?



PS, Yorkie Chris' Squinting technique doesn't work. Wear Specs!

You should have learned by all the swearing. ANYTHING I DO. DON'T!


I thought Yorkshiremen were supposed to be tough!

He's not, he's one of those soppy geordies...

[gedt5]

I got a metal splinter embedded in my eye whilst using a grinder without specs. I had to sit there in hospital while a surgeon removed the offending article using some aneasthetic and a pair of tweezers........yeah you can see everything thats going on.

That was one time too many for me, specs every time now :-)

the same happened to me,havin a surgeon pull out metal in you eye is enough to make you go all H&S.also they put green dye in my eye to find it which was just freeky.:stupid:

[Specialone]

the same happened to me,havin a surgeon pull out metal in you eye is enough to make you go all H&S.also they put green dye in my eye to find it which was just freeky.:stupid:
Yep, you know its bad though when they dont need the dye to see the problem.

[Jordy]

Nice tash... Get it checked out! I was almost blinded by a metal splinter not from the initial impact but from an infection that followed a week later as it rusted in there!