> 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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