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RE: Most Dangerous Tool

Subject: RE: Most Dangerous Tool
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:26:22 -0800 iBJKRLAC021879
Cc: "'TR'" <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
> 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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