What's the worst thing you got in your eye?

[work2muchplay2little]

I think Doc Tinker has had a bad impression on most of us, giving me the urge to ask strange questions. Well I was thinking about how bad it feels to get something in your eye (dangerous sometimes as well) and was wondering what y'all have experienced. I've had a couple of things that I'd rather not repeat. Once got a rust flake imbedded in the cornea that had to be "buffed-out" by an opthamologist, another was carburetor cleaner that left my vision blurry for a few days.

 

[RHARVEY]

I got a load of gas in both eyes.



Rick

 

[Doc Tinker]

What I want to know is: What's it like to have your eye poked out of the socket and have it dangle against your cheek and still see from it?



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Ten years ago, I was cutting a clamp from a rusty exhaust pipe, with the torch, when a piece of hot rust popped into my eye. It fused to my eyeball. At the clinic I could feel my eye pulling out of the socket, as they pulled the chunk out. I still feel the scar from that injury.



I wear glasses and always thought that would be enough protection, but it wasn't.



My eye glasses used to have pits in them all the time, from welding and cutting without goggles.



Doc

 

[B.G. Smith]

In your eye

Well gas is bad and so is brake fluid, sun screen is about as bad but the worst thing I ever got in my eye was a big blond in a crowded bar in Frankfurt Germany one time when I said something unbecoming to her thinking she didn't understand english. bg

 

[Briar Hopper]

Lend me an ear, Doc, and I'll keep an eye out for you ! LMAO

 

[Doc Tinker]

It wouldn't be a fair trade Briar - My ears aren't too much better than yours.



Doc

 

[QRTRHRS]

Using disinfectant for saline on contacts rates pretty high in the pain department.

 

[Bob Wagner]

spray paint as a small child (never stick a nail in the top of spray can)



welding flash wake up in middle of the night :--)

 

[BCFAST]

Here's pain in your eye!

Working on the race car... new carbon fiber bodywork... I finished trimming around the wheel arches to fit the fat tires, took off my safety goggles and spyed one last little spot that needed a touch-up. I hit it with the cutting wheel and promply got a sharde of carbon fiber in my right eye. Had the opthamologist dig it out with a dremmel tool... nice.

 

[paccool]

MEKP -hardener for fiberglass. My brother grabbed the acetone and flushed it out with that first and then water. Not sure which burned the worse -the mekp or the acetone. The tears helped flush it out as well.



Also got carbon tetracloride in both eyes in the service. Ended up with patches over both eyes for a few days.



Hmmmm, wonder if the above may be why I don't see so good these days



Stan

 

[illflem]

Piece of wire from a angle grinder wire wheel came up from the bottom of my safety glasses and pinned my lower eyelid to my eyeball. I only noticed it when I couldn't blink, pulled it out with tweezers, no pain. Eye was very irritated for several days afterwards.

I was surfing years ago when my buddy wiped out and his board popped out from under the wave at about 100mph, the nose got him right in the eye. Basically smashed it like a grape. He has a glass eye now.

 

[Larry Willard]

Lets see, my eye is one of the parts of my body that has seen little carnage. A radio antennae, didn't do any damage went through the eye lid and only needed stitches. paint stripper on multiple occasions when I was an industrial painter. and wood chips when carrying fire wood, eye doctor took that out with what looked like a drill bit, had to wear a patch for a week. thats all I remember for now.

Larry

 

[DarrellB]

I got a good one

"Caustic Acid"



I was exchanging some barrels on the DI system here at work one night when on of them "burped". I had a pair of safety glasses on but my right eye and my four-head still got sprayed. That stuff burns like he11. Flushed out my eye the best I could and went to the ER. They stuck these 2 suction cup looking things in my eyes and made me lay down with my feet higher than my head. They flushed my eyes for 45 minutes that way. The nurse said if wouldn't have been for my contact lense I would have had some permanent damage. :{



I wear a full face shield and goggles now when I play with the acid drums.



Darrell

 

[JoeyD]

I can't remember which hurt the most, I had a 480 volt line short out in a junction box I was working on and got flash burn and could not see for 5 minutes and another time I had a live wire pop out of my hand and poke right into the eye. That hurt for days after the doctors fixed it up, worse than when it happened.



Of all the injurys I have had, nothing hurts more than the eye.

 

[JIM S.]

One time many years ago I was cleaning a . 22 rifle and somehow the bolt spring launched right out and shattered the lense of my glasses, My brother was there and pulled the shards out and now every time I go to the eye DR. they ask what caused the little scars!.

Jim

 

[Bigsaint]

The worst temporary thing I've had is pepper spray, and I have eaten more than my share as when these knuckleheads I work with decide to spray someone, they pretend to be Fire Fighters housing down a structure, everyone gets a taste .



The worst and possibly damaging thing I received is a wood chip while routing the edge of my kids sandbox. I was a pirate for a few days and now always wear wrap around eye protection when I'm tooling or gunsmithing, just not worth the chance. Seems that the older you get, the more obvious it becomes that you are not bulletproof.



Scott W.

 

[TPCDrafting]

I was at a Colo. Rockies game once and went dive bombing for a fly ball and I got someone Else's finger in my eye. It really hurt, but I had another $20 worth of beer (that's about 2 glasses) and I was fine again.

 

[Stranger]

Wow!

I guess my little metal chip with the rust ring and one pass with the magnet doesn't count for much here.



How about the former GF who crashed her BMW during the FREAK ice storm in Bakersfield and poked her own eye with her fingernail.

Lost the internal fluid of the eyeball. Doctors filled it with a silicone fluid. Eventually had to remove the eye completely. That's NOT why she is a former GF.

 

[Skydiver]

Oh man it hurts.

It will give ya cold chills,BLUE LIGHTS in the rearview.

But,speaking from a skydivers view point the worst thing that a skydiver could get in there eye is the WORLD,,,, splat.

Tim

 

[wcaldwell]

When I was 14, I was working in a tire shop in Sacramento. Our salesman had dropped a new battery and the corner cracked. I was moving it out to the "junk" pile, had bent over and put one end on the ground and let the other end drop maybe an inch. The acid splashed up into both eyes. I felt my way back to the shop and Dad (the shop manager) took me to the tire leak tank and began flushing my eyes with water. I try very hard to protect my eyes at all times - almost lost sight once, that was enough.