Fragility of health

[JohnL]

I just lost three hours of productive work because of a relatively tiny speck of sawdust that ended up deep in my upper eyelid. It wasn't exactly painful, just irritating and kept me from doing anything but flushing my eyeball repeatedly (to no good end) and cursing. I finally found the little thing and got it on the tip of a twisted wet piece of paper towel. I don't care much for going to the emergency room, but I was pretty close.

I ALWAYS wear eye protection when I work, but the piece fell into my eye after I was done working and pulled the goggles off. Stupid error on my part, but it happened.

And that got me to considering how fragile good health is. Had I needed to go to the emergency room at a time of upheaval or other unfortunate circumstances, I'd have been SOL.

Things like this need to be considered.

[suerto]

My daughters goin to college to be a doctor.. My aunts a nurse, I can sew.. I got a pretty cool machete.. I'm well stocked on whiskey and plan on making my own.. I got plenty of ammo.. I think we are covered as far as medical emergencies..

Worse case scenario I hand you a gun and tell you it can be quick and painless or long and agonizing..

I think the biggest issue is going to be sterilization and antibiotics.. Gotta think about what killed the most people out of history, and it wasn't war..

[Bowtieshooter]

I got sidetracked today by a water moccasin out of place while working outside today, no firearm but had a sprayer loaded up with roundup, this little bugger decided he wanted to come towards me instead of retreat, got within 5 feet coiled up and opened wide with his mouth straight up, so I thought he was thirsty and gave him a spray he swallowed and opened again, no sidearm, no machete, just a few branches none bigger than a half inch none longer than about 3 foot, so I start smacking him around and got to thinking, hey "dumb ass play with snakes eventually you'll get bit" being that I was in his domain, and I don't have a poisonous bite and had no way to take him out all I could do is stick around and risk getting whatever his fangs were packing. So I made a point to get well away from him, so I had a fragility of health moment today myself.

[Swampy]

You really gotta have a good buddy around to drive you to the hospital incase you burn your eyes.

I still can't thank you enough for that Lee.


Eyes are a bitch. I've done all kinds of crap to my eyes.
Wooden splinter, I've had rust on my cornea from piece of steal stuck in my eye that I left there over the weekend, welding burn a few times. (Lee helped me with my worst case ever)

I've had to wear an eye patch so many times some of my neighbors think I moonlight as a pirate.

I wear safety glasses but I never seem to have a good enough fitting pair.
I strongly recommend googles instead of glasses ..

In a zombie war you have to be very very careful cause a tiny injury will bring the Zombies. They can smell blood like a shark.

[MCInfantry]

I keep a list of buddies handy to take me to the dr. That way my wife cant fill my head with endless stuff on the way.....

[chaser]

I wear safety glasses everyday at work to protect my eyes (requirement). I do the same at home whether it's cutting grass, weedeating, sawing, whatever (only got one set, you know). They make some newer wraparound style safety glasses with adjustable sides for adjusting length for a better fit. Not quite as much coverage as monogoggles, but pretty close.

[fnfal308]

I keep a list of buddies handy to take me to the dr. That way my wife cant fill my head with endless stuff on the way.....

But you do get to hear the laughing

[Swampy]

But you do get to hear the laughing

That is the best part.

[Asc.rudeboy]

the best thing about working around the BOW club house,everyone has had a eye injury,everyone wears eye protection,,,,,,,,,,,on their head out of the way so they can get a good look at what they are working on hahahah.


ive been sidelined from work by a piece of gain dust that got under my contact and scratched my corneas. it dosnt matter how tough you think you are when your sitting their blind with your eyes watering non-stop your just kind of shit out of luck.

[derf]

Got something in my eye, too, last night at about 0330 while watching TV. I couldn't sleep and there was a pretty good show on about George Shultz.

Anyway, these are pretty good:
Uvex Stealth


I try to keep a pair at home, at the shop, and in the truck. I don't wear them while watching TV, though. So, after about 30 minutes of irritation last night I went to the kitchen and directed some water up and into the offending open eye.

[sksshooter]

eyes are important ive never had anything stuck in my eye thankfully. but i have been hit in the eye with a bungee cord that sucked but thankfully it was a plastic ended one so it didn't just rip into my eye. it did cause my eye ball to swell up and hurt. i wear safety glasses at work and now i keep them everywhere at home i dont turn on a grinder, drill, weedeater or anything without them on. i also keep some in my truck used to have a few pairs but ive given them to people when i see them doing stuff that they should be wearing them for. now if i could just remember to wear the ear protection for more things. i wear them at work for things but at home i should probably be wearing them for mowing and weedeating. i do tend to wear them when cutting metal though.

something else people don't think about often is gloves. its amazing how quickly a cut can get infected and land you in the hospital. ive gotten to the point that i don't do hardly anything without wearing gloves. i keep leather gloves everywhere with me. i also picked up a box of latex gloves that i wear while working on things if anything they keep from getting my hands all greasy.

[JeepGirl]

I was going to put something up like this last night! Weird?!
I got an eye injury too! The worst was my dog scratched my cornea. Hurt like hell, sat with it for 2 days until I couldnt take it anymore.
Yuk.

this is what I was going to put up last night...
When you are driving in your car, watch what you are doing, make your main concern driving and not texting or posting..etc.
8 years ago I was riding shotgun with a classmate and we got in a wreck. It took me 5 years to get past the sternum pain.
I lifted maybe 40 pounds last week to move something, its re-injured again.
I now get shooting pains to heart, it is the worst feeling I have ever felt in my life and there is nothing to do for it. Costal cartilage damage is an injury that sticks around for life.
I also still have neck issues from that same stupid wreck, they have never gone away. They have given me some slight nerve damage as well as joint problems that might not be able to be fixed due to their location.

There are certain things in your body that once you mess them up, that's it!
Its not worth it to be stupid.

[Hammar]

FYI, gun scrubber that is sprayed at the wrong angle and shoots back into your eye sucks. Nw safety glasses for gun cleaning.

[louisianaAKman]

I have a pair of safety glasses laying around that I show my employees from time to time, there is a wire, driven 1/2 way through the lens from an electric wire cup grinder! I will go absolutely nuts if I catch my helper without safety glasses when grinding. Before I got a little older, and supposedly wiser, I had several shards of metal embedded in my eye. I had the same thing happen as posted above, a piece of metal in my eye that i was too stubborn to go to the DR for and ended up having them buff rust off of my eyeball, after strapping me to a chair b/c I was trying to fight everyone in the office for causing me severe pain. Ahh the days of senseless aggression, LOL

[dashzero]

I always wore safety glasses to bars.

[VM 2]

I always wore safety glasses to bars.

[louisianaAKman]

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