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drooartz

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I'm currently recuperating from having a small piece of metal removed from my eye. Luckily it was not embedded, though they did have to scrape out some rust from my eye.

Think about that. Guy with a metal needle, scraping stuff out of your eye. :cry: :eeek: :sick:

I'll be fine, already getting close to back to normal but it's not been all that pleasant. Was working on the MGBGT, cutting down an exhaust hanger to fit my car. Quick work, didn't gear up properly for it. You know the story.

So a reminder, wear those safety glasses -- and no, your (my) regular glasses don't rate.
 
Been there Drew and it's no fun at all.
Sorry you have to go through it.
 
GAH! I have a scleral buckle on my left, laser welded retinae, both... hate the thought of any more messin' with my eyes! Nasty stuff, Drew. Glad it wasn't worse.
 
Glad you're OK! I've had some close calls and I'm pretty strict about safety glasses for myself and with students in our engineering lab.

One time a student of mine was wearing the old time safety goggles when he had a piece of wire (from an electric wire wheel) go half-way through his goggle lens. When he removed the goggles, there it was, stuck in the lens! A close call!

When I was a high school auto shop teacher, I used to show my students a particularly gruesome video of a piece of steel being removed from an eye. The photography was all "close up". The doctor used a magnet to pull the piece out and he was commenting that the guy was "lucky" it wasn't non-magnetic aluminum.
When the doctor would place the magnet near the eye, the piece of metal would make the eye "bulge". At that point, usually 2 or 3 students would run out of the room and many of the rest looked pretty pale. It was an effective video.

I just looked for it on Youtube, but now there are even worse videos available. I'll spare you all.....:friendly_wink:
 
Yup. I've been in the ER getting metal taken out before. They used a micro drill on me. Talk about feeling like your eye got punched for the next several days! I'm constantly harping on my students about safety glasses. It's the school policy, and more and more it's becoming policy in all the local shops. I gotta find me a gruesome video the show Mehehehehe!
 
Banjo said:
They used a micro drill on me. Talk about feeling like your eye got punched for the next several days!
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Me too. Piece of rust from my 124 Spider exhaust system. Nothing like having the doc tell you to hold your eye open while this needle shaped looking thing comes at it. You have to fight every natural instinct you have. Then the doc says, "You're going to feel a little pressure on your eyeball." :cower:
Almost 40 years ago and I remember it like it was 40 minutes ago.
 
Yikes!

Need to find a deal on tolerable-quality glasses in bulk, maybe 50 pairs to a carton, that way no matter where I leave them, eventually there will always be a set within arm's length. Then -- no excuses.
 
I'm about to torque a mirror off that is glued to the wall for a customer.
Scared to death!!
 
DNK said:
I'm about to torque a mirror off that is glued to the wall for a customer.
Scared to death!!
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Well then just don't look at it... I know that can be scary :devilgrin:
 
DNK said:
I'm about to torque a mirror off that is glued to the wall for a customer.
Scared to death!!
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I just did three for my daughter. Plenty of duct tape. Only broke one. Yes I had safety glasses on the whole time.
 
Came off in 1 piece...Yea!
Had my eyes closed under my safety glasses
 
DrEntropy said:
GAH! I have a scleral buckle on my left, laser welded retinae, both... hate the thought of any more messin' with my eyes! Nasty stuff, Drew. Glad it wasn't worse.
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Hey, me too, welcome to the club! I have had to go to the doctor twice to have metal out, wasn't too bad, my eye doctor is a great guy, the world needs more MDs like him, didn't even charge me the second time, I think I got the "stupid idiot" discount.

My last episode with metal in the eye, I could tell something was there again, it wouldn't go away and was slowly getting worse, it was a Saturday night, my options seemed to be emergency room or suffer over the weekend, so I started thinking, and I ended up cleaning up one of those magnets on a telescoping wand you use to pick up parts, holding it up to my eye a couple times, and viola!, fixed. Kids don't try this at home.
 
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glemon said:
...so I started thinking, and I ended up cleaning up one of those magnets on a telescoping wand you use to pick up part, holding it up to my eye a couple time, and viola!, fixed. Kids don't try this at home.
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"Physician, heal thyself!"
 
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