Eye protection - get some... seriously

So, I've always been someone who wears eye protection but, my gl***es don't really fit behind goggles or gl***es well, so I find myself using just a shield most of the time.

Well, on Sunday, I felt something get into my eye from under the shield and behind my gl***es but I thought I got it out. Later that night, I still felt something, flushed it out, went to bed. Today I still felt something so I finally went to the opthomologist and had him take a look. He puts me in the scope, looks for 2 seconds and tells me "Well, you've got a chunk of metal in your eye." I said "OK, so what do we do?" As he reached for his *toolbox* he says "Well, we gotta get it out!"

So, he numbs up my eye with some drops, has me put my head in the scope again and takes this godawful looking metal pick thing and starts flicking at my eyeball... you don't feel it but you *feel* it if you know what I mean... creeped me out. He stops for a second and I say "did you get it?" and he says "Not all of it, hang on, let me get my batteries." BATTERIES - the guy said BATTERIES. I'm freaking out now as he comes back with this little aluminum thing that looks like a flashlight - phew, he just needs a closer look. Then he taps the thing and turns it around and it starts spinning making this little whining noise... it's not a flashlight - it's a ******* Dremel tool. I can't belive it. I literally say "Oh, my god, what the hell is that?" and he tells me to relax, we have to gently grind out the rest of it... I won't feel a thing. So, I sit still and try not to blink as he grinds my eyeball now. I half expected him to bust out a Dewalt with a 60 grit flap disk next! After a few more minutes he's done.

Once we are done, he gives me a band-aid contact (a lens with no prescription) and a prescription for some antibiotic drops. He says "those numbing drops are going to wear off in 20 minutes and it's going to hurt... hang in there. I want to see you tomorrow."

I think I'm going to invest in some prescription safety gl***es with side protection now. It could have been A LOT worse... and I don't want it to happen again.

Of course, now that I'm alright, I can certainly appreciate the irony of him using the same tools on my eye as I was using on my car.

 

Been there and done that a couple times !! Now I see little shaded specks and lines when looking at white objects !! That's from the drilling Not cool

 

lost one to a bungee cord defect 28 years ago..
eye pain is not fun

so go lay down cover both eyes (so you don,t move them )and rest .the pain will subside ..tell your brain it will subside
no tv or bright lite
ifn its all out it wont rust do the drops lay back and rest rest

i recently was rejejcted for a MRI cuz the could not decide if the matter/scar tissue in my eye was metal or not ... ifn it is it could tear out the eye from inside out

hope its all out of yourn

paperdog

 

Best advice I've seen in a long time!!!

I just bought 4 pairs of safety goggles last week - I put a pair by each area in the garage - that's AFTER I already have safety gl***es everywhere too.

Been there - done that - it can be worse - trust me - you got off easy - seriously you got off REAL easy.

It's still damn good advice - best TECH all week bar none! (Even though it's not really Tech)

 

Got stabbed in the eye with a test light. Bad news.

Had a few wire wheel wire stuck in the eye as well. "Hey bro, can you pull that out" solved those ones.


Definitely wear eye protection. God gives you two. But you cant drive with one.

 

I had a wire wheel wire fly into my eye and had to have the tech next to me pull it out with a pair of pliers. It was sticking straight out, now I always wear safety gl***es when doing anything like that.
Mick

 

i drive with one
just hafta p*** the vision test
hopefully til the next test

paperdog

 

fun stuff.....I went to the eye doc twice about 20 years ago, I've been real good about gl***es since then.

I even bought a pair of prescription ansi gl***es with side shields for one of my sons, for the robotics stuff he's in. I hope he catches on....safety is a big thing there.

 

OK desertratrodder and Gas Stove-bolts posts about the wire wheels are making me want to puke. You're right... it coulda been a lot worse. Damn.

 

I got drilled 4 weeks ago by the Workman's comp Dr. who ****ed me up worse than i was and STILL left a piece in my eye that felt like a bathtub. I went back to work and told them i'm heading to my eye dr. and he will be sending u ***holes a bill. They paid the bill. That contact thing made it fell a hell of alot better. Well that and a bunch of lortabs.

 

Well SEEING as I REALLY only have ONE EYE! I can not stress this enough. I wear it as often as possible, but still when I get in a hurry sometimes I have to be reminded. MY 6 yr old is good about reminding me to wear gl***es or goggles/face sheild. Just like when she goes riding her 4 wheeler, its helmet and goggles. Anyhow I lost my right Eye 30 yrs ago when I was 3. I was putting steel rod up on the shelf in the garage because I was getting in trouble for playing with it. My parents always told me I was gonna poke my eye ou if I didn't leave that stuff alone, and well, they were right. I learned the hard way. oh yeah I'll be at the round up if any of u sicko's(like my self) want me to take it out and show ya

 

Thankfully, I'm not in much pain right now... that really ****s about your MRI though... I kinda would want one if they thought I needed one...

 

Yeah I can only imagine that stopping a stray wire off a wheel is a bi%^& - you were lucky as I've already met a fella who lost his vision from the same thing - it penetrates far enough and the results are worse - you can join the club too!! I gotta warn you though - it can be a real drag without depth perception.

Trsut me you can drive with one - but it's much easier with two!!!!!

 

Been there. Eye injuries **** a bunch. I have the same problem with the whole gl***es thing. I try to be good about wearing my safety gl***es, but over my eyegl***es they still give enough room for errant bits of unpleasantness to find their way in. A chunk of something found got in a few weeks back- hurt like hell for a few days, then went away [my medical insurance ****s, so I kinda just had to deal with it]. Hope like hell its out.

 

I have steel BEHIND my eye - no MRI's for me and we BUILD them where I work - I stay CLEAR of that end of the building!!!! I probably ought to get a tatoo or something telling a doc to NOT MRI me if I was unconscious or something.
Eye pain ****s - hard to NOT move your eyes - even with them closed - you hear a noise and instinctively "look" that direction.


Here's a BIZZARE experience - open your eye and the only thing you detect is the feeling of air touching your eyeball. We all experience that but never know it since we are overwhelmed with this thing called vision. Wear your safety gl***es/gopggles - you don't want to experience this first hand - it ain't worth it!!!

 

It doesn't have to be only small pieces that can do the damage...I was putting a mustang fuel cell in the 49 Chevy and had the trunk cut out and was just fitting it in when it slipped:



I had my regular gl***es on and they got bent up and the lens nicked too. 14 s***ches and the prescription gl***es with side shields are on order.

 

that does it, I'm not working on cars any more.

 

Damn...glad to hear you're gonna be ok. When I was a teenager my buddies and me were working on an old outboard and my friend Billy's dad came out screaming at us about eye protection. This guy hardly ever spoke to us, so it was unusual for him to have an outburst like that. As we're looking at him, utterly confused, he pops his gl*** eye out. Never knew he had one before that. Apparently, as a young man he sent a chunk of metal through his eye with a grinder.

That's all it took for me. I misplace my safety gl***es so often I ordered a damn box of them - so there are roughly 30 pairs floating around my shop. Just about anywhere I settle down to work there's usually a pair within reach!

 

Wow that was damn close to the ever so needed eyeball, very lucky sir.

 

Floaters! YaY!

they make reading fun! they also make me wear sungl***es any time it's not dark outside (and you guys thought the Ray Bans were just there to make me look cool.)

I like it when they move around independant to your vision...so you are constantly looking for what just moved in your periphial vision.
mine is both from injury, and the blessings of really high calcuim deposits in the water table up near Amarillo. vision 20/20...and still ****ed!

 

damn i just had small metal chunks in my eye twice (no drilling). now i wear a face shield, when i'm looking down and grinding i can wedge the bottom of the shield against my chest (fat guy!!) and it makes a good seal......haven't gotten anything in my eye since.

 

I have only been drilled on once - cause it was C.F. - not steel.....

Most of the steel pieces I get out with a magnet & a piece of tisue paper - dip the corner of tisue into some eye drop fliud & dab at the sliver - if your lucky it sticks to corner of tisue.... steady hands requiered - If your not lucky - its off to the doc.....one time I had a burr from a die grinder go in so deep they had to pull it out with a magnet the size of a canon....put your head in a vise - line you up & zap...Every time I go for eye exam, doc always asks, what do you do...? You must have 15 scars.

some times the worst ones ( float ) & gl***'s wont stop em.

Were a full face shield

Aways have eye flush on hand.

 

Wish that were true. I know people who have only one working eye and they drive. I do not ride with any of them, especially after one of them tried to continuously run into oncoming traffic.

Not trying to derail the main topic of the importance of eye protection. Put safety goggles on when you work on stuff. OSHA might have gone overboard with it but it's always a good idea.

 

i've had countless pieces of metal removed from my eye. prolly had to have the ole drill treatment done half a dozen times. 3 or 4 times just last year alone. and i always wear my safety gl***es. imagine how bad it could be if i had'nt worn them all the time. they wont' stop everything but they will stop most things. WEAR EM!

 

Had to add my two cents. I also have had many pieces of **** in my eyes but I want to tell you of my very close call. While un-employed about 14 years ago I was building a go kart for my sons and had to do all my grinding with my bench grinder and a big 7" disc. Anyways I was rounding off corners of 1/4" x 1" stock one after the other on the bench grinder for maybe 15 minutes straight when all of a sudden the metal dust exploded (yes exploded) in the guard and shot out the exit at the back of the grinder! It was like a "woosh boom" and it was over. I didn't even know what happened until I looked at my tool box that was in the line of sight and there was this gray **** all over the front of it. I looked in a closed drawer could see more of the gray **** so I moved one of my open end wrenches and you could see the profile of each wrench against the bottom of the drawer. Imagine if one of my kids were standing there with or without eye protection? Not good.
Those macho idiots on TV are not helping matters either. Play safe!

 

Home Depot sells bigger goggles that fit over gl***es well. Not the flimsy *** kind for $2 but some better quality, thicker plastic ones for about $13. Worth every penny. Anytime I'm doing any grinding or whatever, they're on me. My vision's not great, but I'd like to keep what I have.

 

I've had metal pulled out of my eyes 3 times . I hated safety gl***es until I finally found a nice bifocal pair.... These ****ers actually work! I'm a convert.

 

I too have had enough metal dug out of my eyes to build a whole car, but not all of it comes straight off the grinder. I have worn goggles, gl***es, full face shields, and sometimes all at once. But I have still gotten stuff in my eyes.

I think that a lot of times the shavings will fall off your hair or shirt as you are getting undressed that night.

So, I always blow myself off real good with compressed air to get those particles off me as I leave the shop. Just be sure to not blow into your ears.

And always grind so the sparks fly AWAY from you.

 

When I had my surgery for getting stabbed in the eye, they told me you cant drive with one eye in CA. Maybe they changed that.
I have floaters in my left eye, right in my peripheral vision. People think I'm weird because I am always turning to see what is going to "hit" me from that side.
Getting the s***ches pulled out ****ed the most. First off get over having a guy come at and touch your eye with something sharp, then seeing your eye stretch as the stich gets pulled out..again and again.

 

I'm nursing one right now. I used a grinder for half a second - you know the story. Anyhow, I immediately hit the mirror and pulled the offender from my eye, but it hurt when I wore a contact for more than about 6 hours for a week afterwards, so I'm gonna not wear a contact for a week to let it heal. Since it doesn't bother me without the contact, I'm pretty sure it just cut the eye and didn't leave any metal in there. Hopefully that works, I hate doctors...