Human beings are fragile - be careful

[EHJ]

FYI - they tried first aid at home - they had eye wash - didn't work. Then urgent care the next morning - who didn't have the equipment. Then an optometrist who wasn't in. Then the Hillsboro Eye Clinic which is where my ophthalmologist is, managed to get us in at the last minute.

Our next stop would have been the ER, but they may or may not have a specialist on duty and may or may not have the equipment needed.

Patient is recovering.

Glad everyone is ok now.
I tried everything, magnets, eye wash - everything. My eye caught some grinder filing. Couldn't see it - it was lodged in the black ring of my iris.
By the time I found an eye doc on a sunday - he took one look (I literally 'found' him in a local shopping market) and he rushed me back to his office.
Once he was done scraping the rust ring off the surface of my eyeball and found the issue is when he opened up about how close I was to blindness in that eye. A matter of hours he said.

 

[The Heretic]

The issue was non-metal debris fortunately, and it was lodged in the eyelid, instead of the eye, but was causing a LOT of pain and some damage. It was hard to find too.

But yeah - metal would be bad or worse.

If SHTF and my kids were here at my house, I have an eye surgeon and a nurse as neighbors, but I doubt either one has much equipment here, and it would be a matter of luck whether they would be home or stuck elsewhere if an earthquake hit.

 

[ditchtiger]

foreign objects in your person are bad no matter what or where.

You just need a little lube.

 

[DCriddle]

FYI - they tried first aid at home - they had eye wash - didn't work. Then urgent care the next morning - who didn't have the equipment. Then an optometrist who wasn't in. Then the Hillsboro Eye Clinic which is where my ophthalmologist is, managed to get us in at the last minute.

Our next stop would have been the ER, but they may or may not have a specialist on duty and may or may not have the equipment needed.

Patient is recovering.

don't ever go to the ER for an eye problem unless you want a quick referral to an ophthalmologist.I work in an eye clinic and we commonly remove corneal foreign bodies. ER doesn't have the equipment. If it doesn't come out with a flush then they get an urgent referral to an ophthalmologist, which btw, there is always one on call for these types of situations.

 

[Jonnyuma]

Something as simple as a speck in the eye can take a person out of commission and cause them a LOT of pain - that probably won't go away any time soon until the cause is removed.

O man... ain't that the truth.

I got a small flake of steel in my eye, looking up while putting a pallet in an overhead rack w a forklift... gravity did the rest.
I let it go too long and it started to rust IN my eye. Then the eyeball started to absorb it. Eeew.
The fix involved a Dremel-type tool and a steady hand (of a doctor. Don't try this at home in the bathroom mirror). Most unpleasant. Still skeeves me out 20 yrs later... l HATE the sound of a Dremel motor.

 

[The Heretic]

don't ever go to the ER for an eye problem unless you want a quick referral to an ophthalmologist.I work in an eye clinic and we commonly remove corneal foreign bodies. ER doesn't have the equipment. If it doesn't come out with a flush then they get an urgent referral to an ophthalmologist, which btw, there is always one on call for these types of situations.

I had an occlusion in my eye (it looked kind of like a migraine aura, but wasn't) and went to urgent care. They sent me to the ER, who looked and looked and then sent me to an ophthalmologist. The ER doc was maybe an intern - he didn't know how to work the equipment and had to have someone show him. I don't think either of them were any kind of eye doctor. Ophthalmologist diagnosed it as hypertensive retinopathy, and a detached vitreous, which then got me a referral to a cardiologist (for hpertension), and a bunch of tests in a hospital for my heart condition.

 

[Jonnyuma]

Ophthalmologist diagnosed it as hypertensive retinopathy, and a detached vitreous, which then got me a referral to a cardiologist (for hpertension), and a bunch of tests in a hospital for my heart condition.

Not to be nosy, but how did that turn out?
Asking because of my own issues w HBP and as a CDL driver who can't continue to work if the eyes go bad.
The HBP is under control, but it's definitely something l have to tend to.

 

[DCriddle]

I had an occlusion in my eye (it looked kind of like a migraine aura, but wasn't) and went to urgent care. They sent me to the ER, who looked and looked and then sent me to an ophthalmologist. The ER doc was maybe an intern - he didn't know how to work the equipment and had to have someone show him. I don't think either of them were any kind of eye doctor. Ophthalmologist diagnosed it as hypertensive retinopathy, and a detached vitreous, which then got me a referral to a cardiologist (for hpertension), and a bunch of tests in a hospital for my heart condition.

it's crazy how a simple eye exam can show diabetes, hypertension, and other things. It's why your PCP likes them annually.

 

[The Heretic]

Not to be nosy, but how did that turn out?
Asking because of my own issues w HBP and as a CDL driver who can't continue to work if the eyes go bad.
The HBP is under control, but it's definitely something l have to tend to.

A detached vitreous is common as people get older - I don't recall if it was related to the HBP or not as I also had blood vessels in my eye that were bleeding, but it probably was.

I still had 20/20 vision, but the "floaters" in my left eye are noticeable. I still have my ODL and don't have to wear glasses except for reading, but I think the vision in that eye is not as good. Now I am sometimes having problems focusing, especially when looking to the extreme left and I sometimes have double vision - especially at night. I probably can't get a CDL, at least not for passengers, as I have sleep apnea.

I go in for a checkup in about 3 weeks. I do need to get corrective glasses though - I had a prescription, just never bothered to get them. I should, but my vision was not bad enough to require them for driving. I will after this next checkup.

As for HBP/etc. - I have several blockages in my heart that are 50/50 requiring a stent - cardiologist says it isn't quite worth the risk - yet. I take BP meds to keep the pressure under control and those work, so far.

 

[The Heretic]

it's crazy how a simple eye exam can show diabetes, hypertension, and other things. It's why your PCP likes them annually.

I knew I had hypertension, just ignored it. Shouldn't have. Little brother got stents. Older brother recently had a heart attack and a quad bypass. All that meat, potatoes and creamy milk from our milk cow on the farm.

 

[Soli]

You're a good man. He/she is lucky. Glad it's all good.

Some joke about it, but for goodness' sake wear eye protection. When young had a mishap on a drill press, "too hot" to wear my googles. Dr. dug 3 pieces of metal out of my left eye. They'd already started rusting, just a few hours after it happened. Made a nice pattern around my pupil, he said I was very lucky as could have been blinded if one had gone into the pupil.

Interesting note: he said 9 of 10 eye injuries he saw were the result of impact. Someone hitting something with a hammer which then shattered/flaked and went into the eye.

Ever since I've been pretty fanatical about wearing eye protection when doing such things.

 

[HighlandLofts]

This is why I wear my knee pads and safety glasses.






lorl, not really

San Fransisco house slippers.
What was in your eye?

 

[thorborg]

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That depends a whole lot on who sharpened the knife

 

[thorborg]

Just about the worst may be a splinter of glass which I had in my eye. Glass literally disappears in that environment. As if that wasn't bad enough I had to endure nearly two and a half hours of sandy dry eye while they looked for it with my eye lid pealed back with a mechanical spreader.
Ironically I actually had two pairs of glasses on, My prescription glasses and safety glasses that covered them, but the dang glass splinter still managed to fly through the vent holes on the side.

 

[po18guy]

It is interesting how medicine and auto mechanics have similarities. Back in the 80s, I had a sliver of steel in my eye. Can't remember what happened. Went to the doc. He deadened the eye, dropped in some dye to indicate the sliver, dug it out and then smoothed the surface of the eye with optical grade sandpaper. No primer or clear coat, but some drops for a week or so.

 

[Mikej]

Geezus, I can't be the only one reading this with my eyes feeling like there's a bunch of stuff in them?

 

[The Heretic]

Geezus, I can't be the only one reading this with my eyes feeling like there's a bunch of stuff in them?

Trust me, if there was something there, you would know it.

About 45 years ago I worked in a manufactured home factory. I put together the "end walls". I was working with a finish stapler when it jammed (staplers, nail guns, etc., jam frequently). Like a fool I forgot to remove the air hose and instead removed my eye protection to get a better look at it. I shot a finish staple into the inner corner of my eye socket - missed my eyeball by that much. Pulled it out with a pair of pliers then went to the local clinic - it had scratched my eye IIRC (or maybe that was the time I got a flake of sawdust in my eye while routing out a window opening).

Either way, you most assuredly know something got into your eye when it happens.

Unfortunately, a lot of people get detached vitreous when they get older because it shrinks due to dehydration of the vitreous. Then floaters become more of an issue and many do not go away. Some eye docs say they can remove floaters with lasers, but from what I have read about it, it is an iffy proposition that is not worth risking unless your vision is severely impacted - mine is not. My vision is not as good as it was, but mostly I do not notice the floaters unless I think about them and focus on them. Everybody has floaters, and you usually get more as you get older.

 

[The Heretic]

Just spoke with neighbor who is eye surgeon.

He said they get this all the time at the clinic.

People working with material, it gets in their hair, they take a shower and it falls into their eyes.