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buickanddeere

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Should have worn safety glasses while installing the new range hood in the kitchen. Or at least obtained some assistance. Got a shiner in my right/ dominant eye when ithe hood slipped .Now vision is obscured with specs and floaters of dark debris.
The goodnews he retina appears fully functional. Still don"t know if the floaters are stirred up sludge from the bottom of the eye. Or part is the inner lining?
Was told not to eat or drink anything so that sounds like potential surgery.
Rest of you guys, take care of the eyes.
 
Sorry to hear about that- wouldn't think that installing a range hood would need them, but guess you never know where the next assault on your body is coming from.

Was proud of my kids this weekend- we had a wood cutting party, and everyone was running chain saws. They both got lined out with ear protection and safety glasses before we started. And everybody managed to keep their own kids out of harm's way.

I never used ear protection when I was young. Nobody did. Didn't realize that even if I started using it in later life, it still wouldn't stop the ringing. . .
 
Worked as a welder for years, got 3 pieces of steal in my eyes over the years. All 3 were while wearing safety glasses, don't know how many were prevented but I'ld bet it was a lot.
 
About 8 years ago, not long after I had had Lasix, I was going through a thicket with my JD 1020. The tractor caught a small branch that whipped back across my right eye. Since then I've had a floater that looks like a mosquito flitting around in my eye. It also gave me slight double vision in that eye---when I look up into the night sky I see twice as many stars as everyone else. Hope yours turns out OK, but I suspect you'll be dealing with floaters the rest of your life.
 
good luck ! almost lost an eye when i was very young.dont know if they still do it but dr bandaged both eyes shut so one wouldnt be weaker as it healed. that couple of weeks being blind scared me worse than anything else in my life. when my eyes go just shoot me or put a gun in my hand.
 
Call 911

Sorry ,couldn't resist.

Never know when some freak thing will put you out of comission.
 
Wife took a tennis serve right square in the eye a quite a few years ago. Doctors checked and said everything looked OK. About a week later she started losing vision in that eye. Torn retina. Totally lost vision in that eye. Surgical procedures at that time were in their infancy. About 5 years ago doctors said they could do retinal repair sugery. She now has better vision in that eye (it was her bad one) than ever before.
 
I wish you the best of luck. Back in 1996 I was wire brushing the bottom of one of my Killbros hopper wagons at the farm. I had on glasses but not safety glasses. It was a windy day, a piece of rust got in my right eye. I tried to flush it out as best as possible. Drove 75 miles back to Indy in severe pain and blurred vision in that eye. Immediately ended up at an emergency care place. It healed up after 6 weeks. Vision took almost 6 months before it returned to normal.
 
praying that they get you fixed up. A couple weeks ago I got out the torch to cut a bolt....you see where this is going.....didn't take the time to get goggles cause it was one bolt, hot spark in the corner of my right eye, no damage thankfully but I learned a lesson I hope to remember.
 
Good luck. I got some grinding swarf in my eye once. 1 trip to the docs, and 2 weeks before it was right.
 
prayers... hope all goes well.. I usually am really particular about my eyes BUT... I seldom use glasses while filling my equipment with gas. Couple years back was helping buddy with a two man hole auger.. Needed gas so buddy started filling slopped right up into his eyes, I grabbed water started pouring in his eyes..ya didnt really help.. Said was burning couldnt see so ran him to hospital for attention.. Turned out o.k. but still..
 
Good luck! I haven't had that particular injury but suffered several others from failure to get enough help with a project.
 
hopefully it is just because the doc is afraid that you will miss your mouth. :) Good luck and hope it goes well.
 
My prayers are with you. Our eyes are nothing to fool-around with. The other day my son got some steel in his eye. Went to the emergency room to get it out. Came home and said it was my fault, because I never wore safety glasses and never taught him to. He has a point! Vic
 
Got whacked hard in one eye years ago when a branch came off the muffler on the 4020. I was making the last pass plowing a headland on a new field I had rented. The branch came across my nose, and got the eye on the opposite side. In a few minutes vision in that eye went white.
They explained that it had bled inside, therefore the vision loss. Dr's concern was when the scab came off in three days. Apparently inside the eye, where you have no control over it, the chance for re-bleeding at that point is a serious one.
It all turned out fine, after too many drugs and over treatment for a month.
Now the real challenge is glaucoma!
 
That's something, last Sunday I was clearing little brush ect off the cows fence, the charger was not putting out enought of a zap, I was only using corona hand clippers and loopers, wouldent u know a stick poked me in my eye! It hurt and kept watering, well a week later I can see fine, but in the morning with the sun it would water and want to close, hard to drive like that, starting to feel better now. I always were sun glasses, but it was over cast that day so I dident, never thought to were clear safety glasses,, in to much of a hurry i guess. Good luck. Least u have ur I phone? Least I think u said u had one! Lol
 
Just seen the specialist. Retina and internal lining of eye is intact at this point in time. The general black fog is dead red blood cells and the floaters are dislodged clots. The hemeraged blood vessel sealed it"s self so no surgery required.
Considered a flush and fill of the eye"s internal fluid but will take a wait and see attitude. If the floaters and blood cells wash them selves out in the new few weeks or months with the normal turn over of internal fluid.. It"s better than invasive eye surgery which can cause future problems such as cataracts or a detached retina.
No sudden movements , hockey , shooting or heavy lifting until checkup in 3wks.
Thank the Almighty for his mercies
 
Hello buickanddeere,
I've had stuff in my eyes over the years, not fun at all! Halo and shadows at night looking at street lights. I WAS wearing safety glasses, back then there were no side shields. Anyhow take care and follow the doctor's orders.
One pair to a customer.................. Stay well.
Guido.
 

Sorry about your accident. I would never thought installing a hood would need safety glass, but you never know. I was picking up rocks in a new field the first of the year, I was going to mow. All of a sudden my right eye starting to get black lines. By the time I got home I had almost no vision in thet eye. Believe me I was freeking out about that time. I got right in to a eye doctor, he said it will clear up in time. took about a month. You should be ok with your eye. I had a rock come out the front of my mower and hit the front tire and fler right into my eye. To this day that eye has the worst vision. Do what the doctor says. Stan
 
Sounds like you might have a Anterior Hyphema injury.
Twenty years ago I got poked in the eye with a tree branch that had brushed by the cab of motor grader I was operating. I wear hard contact lenses. The impact shattered the contact lens.
Long story short I was taken to an eye clinic where the Dr. removed the broken lens. My eye looked like a scrambled egg yoke. I was pu in the hospital for 5 days. I was given medicine so I would not sneeze, stuff so I could crap without straining and was only allowed out of bed to go to the bathroom. The Dr did not want the blood clot to break off inside the eye.
My vision was not affected, lucky I guess.
I truly believe the hard contact lens saved my eye.
 
I have seen an eye specialist for macular degeneration. Eyes are better now. You take vision for granted till you have trouble. I heard that people would rather take 10 years off of there life than loose there eye sight.
 
With what I hear from the "political" folks on this site, hope your Canadian docs can treat you before 2015.
 
Man take care of your eyes!!! As of January 2nd of this year I was blind in my right eye and legally blind in my left. A wonderful young lady opthamologist took my case and bucked all the "seasoned professionals". I had developed severe cataracts in both eyes primarily from chronic iritis and just generally being stupid about my eyes for many years. Dr.M preformed lens replacement on my right eye on January 3rd and was highly successful. She did the same on my left eye on February 14th and again was successful. I did require "corrective laser clean up in both eyes in August as was predicted. Dr.M bucked the odds and risks other doctors wouldn't take. Most days my vision is 20/20 or better but on occasion I still have an iritis flare up, then my vision isn't as good for a day or so. But I'm told that will likely be a fact of the rest of my life. I now peer out thru $600 OSHA Z87 bifoggie safety glasses. Incidently Dr.M relocated to Kansas City, you guys in that region have one heck of a good doctor now!
 
Hope your eye is OK but I thought union workers were supposed to know better. I guess their training is lacking.
 
I'm absolutely astounded. I was led to believe B&D was incapable of making mistakes, and his superior intellect, coupled with his highly skilled union background made it impossible for things like this to happen. Could it possibly be that you can't believe EVERYTHING you read on the internet?
 
It was that way in Kincardine Hospital. I had to help the ER doctor set up and align the eye exam scope. Then he suggested that I see my regular optometrist in a day or two when they could get fitted in.
He figured that a patient with a pulse, respiration and not bleeding to death is not having a significant concern.
Went to London St Joe's hospital and they said . We had better look at this right now. They wondered how the Kincardine ER doc didn't see the blood and clots inside the eye.
Outstanding and quick care there.
 
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