I had the exact same thing done to my eye about 5 years ago while cutting off a
rear fender bolt. They put drops in my eye before grinding it down so I didn't
feel a thing. But, the minute it wore off it was one of the most painful
booboos I've had. I asked the Dr. why they couldn't give me some of the drops
and he explained that folks will abuse the drops to deal with the pain and if
used too much, it will cause your retina to detach!
Scott Suhring
Mechanicsburg, PA
'70 TR6
'59 TR3
-----Original Message-----
From owner-triumphs at Autox.Team.Net
[mailto:owner-triumphs@Autox.Team.Net]On Behalf Of Randall
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 3:26 PM
Cc: 'TR'
Subject: RE: Most Dangerous Tool
> While the grinder had a shield, I didn't have safety glasses, and a splinter
> went around the wheel, under the shield and up into my eye. Just a small
> splinter, but it stuck in the pupil of my eye, perpendicular to surface.
> Every time I blinked, it wiggled the splinter and scratched the inside of my
> eyelid. I wasn't sure what had happened, because it didn't hurt, at first.
> By the next morning, it looked as if someone had shoved an orange under my
> eyelid and felt like it, too. Hurt like the bejesus. And it's no fun getting
> something like that removed, either.
Might be worth mentioning at this point, I did something similar a few years
back except I wasn't certain I still had metal in my eye. Went to bed with it
still in there. When I went to the ER the next day (no urgent care clinics
left around here and no regular doctors in the office on Sunday); the ER MD
told me I should have come in sooner, since the ferrous metal had left a rust
ring in my cornea. I had to make another trip the next day to an
ophthalmologist who used a tool remarkably similar to a Dremel to grind away
part of my cornea to remove the rust ring. My vision was blurry from that eye
for a few days, but the cornea grew back & it's fine now.
Oddly enough, I was actually wearing eye protection when this happened. The
particles from my Dremel were apparently small enough to get through the vents
in my goggles, and got embedded when I tried to blink them away.
Randall
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