Hey guys,
Just thought id share my latest hospital visit experience with you all. I'm a truck and transport tech at an international dealer here in Canada and due to the cold weather we've been getting all kinds of service calls for brakes wont release, air lines froze etc. So a call comes and i grab a jug of methyl hydrate, a tiger torch and a few other tools and out the door i go. When I get on site I started pouring the methyl into the air line and the driver hit the brake spraying the methyl into both eyes. Called my g/f who was close by and she took me to the hospital where my eye was frozen, an "eye hat" put in and flushed with a gallon of saleen for the next 4 hours. All I can say is what a feeling, cant see and cant breath cause of the alcohol fumes.
Anyone else have any eye injuries?
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Originally Posted by fabiodriven
to take a tiled floor out of a suite we were reno-ing, and a chunk of what I thought was grout zapped straight into my eyeball. I thought no bigs, I'll just get someone to scope it out, I'll rinse it, and get back at'er. No one could see squat in there, rinsing did s.f.a. and it really was too aggravated to close. So, I got the GC to give me a lift to the walk in to get a quack to rinse it. She said it was steel and picked at it for a while, and couldn't do a darn thing. Sent me to an eye specialist, who picked at it for a while, said it was useless and to go to the hospital. So I tried to get myself there with my left eye patched in a truck that was missing the drivers side mirror. Thankfully my gf was able to drive me from her place. So I get to the hospital and they rush me into emerg. whilst giving me the gears for not having been more expedient in my travel. Wheeling me into the OR the doctor says "this is pretty simple surgery, it can take five minutes, it can take half hour." Huge jinx right there. Two smegging hours later, they call in another eye surgeon, and he eventually extracts the offending chunk with a magnet. Ever had a really deep sliver that just twinged right up your spine when you ran a fingernail over it? Imagine that in your eye. That's what every little pick at the chunk felt like. At one point I heard the anesthetist say "he'll be coming up any minute" So I said "I'm already up" which probably sounded like "mur gurfldy bup." After that I got to watch the stitches going in to my eye with the eye into which the stitches were going. I describe it as some folk would describe their alien abduction: I saw a weird light, and odd metal instruments. Which is true, because that was all I could see. It wasn't as painful as you would imagine, but fighting down the panic, which at that point had almost taken on a physical entity, was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do in my life. I spent four days in the hospital recovering from the ordeal, and a further two weeks patched. Needless to say I learned somewhat of a lesson, my GC's insurance went up, and I got the coolest safety goggles I've ever seen. My sight in my left eye is still not normal, and I doubt it'll ever come back %100.
