The pain of the last 60 hours

Ron-P

Monday night at about 11pm I laid down to go to sleep, closed my eyes and my right eye gets this pain as if someone is sticking a needle in it.

I figure something is in it and try to wash it out, nothing. My wife goes to the local 24 hr. drug store as I cannot even blink or close my eye because of the pain.

She tries to flush it, nothing. Now, it is about 1am. We wake my daughter and head to the emergency room. Got there, they friggen, flushed my eye, put dye in it, looked around.....saw no damage, but no object. He then took a large Q-tip and cleaned the eye and under the lids, then put some gel in it. Then he made an appointment for me to see a specialist at 9am. It is now about 3:30am and we are heading home.

I get home and cannot sleep because the pain is getting worse. I cannot close my eye or blink...it hurts like hell.

At 7:30am we are heading out to the eye doctor. At 9 he takes me in, drops some dye in it and puts me under some sort of magnifing thingy. I said it feels like its in the upper right, he says, yes, I can see the location of where it might be due to all the scratches across your eye. A minute later he removes a huge-**** object. Looks like a piece of wood about the size of 5 pin heads put together. It was tucked up so far up inside the lid that he was not surprised the emergency med guys could not find it.

Finally, its over. I, my wife and daugher are beat to hell. Now it is just a little blurry and sore due to the work-over my eye has seen.

The doc said most likely, the object got in my eye and was flooting around and when I laid down to ge to sleep my eye rolled back and the object lodged itself way back in there.

Damn, what a day.


Peace Out~:D

jdelan

Ouch! Didyou get to take it home???

Aaron

That sounds awful Ron. I'm glad that you're OK and that it didn't turn out to be very serious.

Aaron

-justin-

That story was making me squint my eyes while reading it. I wear contacts and hate when they are dirty or burn, but I can't imagine what it must feel like to have that horrible feeling happen over such a long period of time. Eff that! Glad to hear that they got it out.

~JB

carvinman1

Ron,
Sorry about your ordeal. I'm glad it was nothing too serious. Listen to some good tunes and have a brew or two.

Danny

juice21

man, my eyes are about to water just reading that... time to retire to the green room for a little R&R

dbartol

I hate it when that happens

TroyD

man, that makes me squeamish just reading about it, hope you are feeling better...

Troy

Ron-P

Thanks guys.

All is just about good. Still a little blurry, but getting better.

I did not keep the object. I was so over exhausted from no sleep and all the pain that by the time he got it out, I was just about passed out. All I had time to do after that was run next door to BB and pick-up Pearl Harbor:)

Got to kick back in ye'ol Green Room last night and crank some battle scenes, couldn't watch the entire movie...too tired. But man, those battle scenes kick major-****.


Peace Out~:D

I-SIG

STUFF-IN-EYE=BAD JUJU!

Sounds like that sucked a fat one. Glad you're okay.

Not to start a one-up-manship thing, but I got a splinter about an 1/8" wide rammed underneath a fingernail. Easily the most painful thing I've ever had happen. Defintely not as bad as the eye, but damn, it hurt. Took about 12 novacane shots to get it sufficiantly numb.

My father has gotten fiberglass insulation in his eye before. Put himout of commission for about a week or so.

Wes

Ron-P

Oh yeah well....

When I was younger I was in the back yard with my dad and were standing next to eachother just as a segal flew over and a huge crap landed on his head.

I just about droped a load in my pants I laughed so hard.


Peace Out~:D

jcaut

About a year ago my wife and I went to Fayetteville to watch the football Razorbacks get clobbered by Georgia. Our seats were way up high in the stadium, and it was rather windy up there. Something blew into my eye around halftime.

By the time the game was over, it was bothering me so badly that my wife had to drive home (about two hours).

We got back in town that evening, and stopped at the local hospital ER. I figured since it was Saturday evening, that was my best bet.

After much flushing, washing, and Q-tipping, the doctor resorted to picking the object out of my eyeball with a needle, much the way you would remove a splinter from your finger. Man! was that painful! I couldn't open my eye for two days!

I feel for you, Ron.

TheOneRod

My wife, Deb, once splashed crystal draino into her eye while fighting a clogged bathtub drain. We had to get a neighbor to take us to the ER 'cause my stepson had our truck. The only problem is that we live way out here in the "haunted" woods and you're looking at a 40 minute drivetime to get to town.

That was a night! I can relate.

When it came time years later to get her fitted for glasses the scar on her eye could still be seen.

wodom1

sorry to hear that Ron. hope everything's better. i've got an interesting work related injury, though not to my eyes. a couple of summers ago between my senior year of high school and my freshman year at LSU, i worked in a shipyard in Amelia, LA for an electrical subcontractor (Seco Industries) as a general helper. my brother-in-law is an electrician and was my foreman. one day he had me shooting studs (gun shaped thing that attached to a welding-type machine that arc welded threaded bolts so that clamps can be screwed onto them to run power wires). when you would shoot a stud, the bolt would be welded to the steel and slag would come down. well, on this day i had to shoot some studs that were vertical and over my head. i was about 60 feet off the ground underneath a platform standing on a piece of deck about 3' wide with nothing on either side of me but a quick trip to the ground and only a harness with a double lanyard to catch me if i fell. before i started grinding the primer off the steel, i found a fiberglass fire blanket to cover my legs with to protect me from the slag. problem is, when i started shooting the studs, i didn't pull the blanket up high enough and pieces of molten metal were landing all over me. so like an idiot, i start jumping around trying to get all this slag off of me. well that didn't work. a piece of slag burned through the fly on my jeans and the only thing that kept me from having my manhood burned was the fly of my boxer shorts and my jumping around. there's a burn hole on the top flap of the fly on my boxers that protected me. the back of my thigh got burned, but that's better than the alternative.

I-SIG

Molten metal, always good stuff. The engineer I work with had to close a switch on some power distribution. I think the voltage was 25,000VAC. not sure of the amps, but it was apparently enough that when the contacts of the switch didn't quite close all the way, the wires feeding the switch burnt down, on top of his company truck and a couple of other cars. Needless to say, he had barely gotten out from under the lines by the time they hit the ground. Whenever we do switching, we always make sure to have or FR shirts on.

Wes