Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: recurve shooter on February 04, 2010, 12:08:46 am
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well i appear to have gotten an ittsy bittsy pice of glass in my eye. this is relatively unpleasent :'(. how do i get it out?
i didnt really know where to put this sence the "anything els" board vanished. :-\
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The Doctor! If you can see it try to CAREFULLY drag a Q-Tip across to get it out. Be carefull.
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Doctor!!!! If you leave a bit of it in your eye, it could work its way in deeper and you could find youself in Half eye's company months or years down the road!!!
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i have had many pieces get into my eys,never actually had one pierce the eye though
when i do get a piece in my eye,i do like mullet suggested
now next time you go to do some knapping
the first thing you should be reaching for are a nice pair of SAFETY GLASSES ;)
they are cheap,alot cheaper than a glass eye
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Glass eyes are a COOL mood breaker when it falls out on the floor at a party, though. ;D
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Glass eyes are a COOL mood breaker when it falls out on the floor at a party, though. ;D
and if ya get bored you can always try knappin it ::)
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Pull your eyelid out and down. Hold it there. This causes your eye to water and will flush evrything to the front.once it does use the the torn end of a paper match to remove the debris.this was what a trauma doc taught me. Be very cautious if the eye feels scratched. Go to a doctor immediately.
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If it's actually stuck in your eye - doctor is about your only option.
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well i guess it was just a really little pice that wasnt verry sharp, cuz it came out over night. scared the snot out of me though. i deffinently got to get me some glasses, cuz that wasnt fun. cant emagine how bad it would suck to have a bigger, sharper pice in there. :o
thanks guys. i guess thats another one to go along with the mouth-numbing berrys. ;D
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well i guess it was just a really little pice that wasnt verry sharp, cuz it came out over night. scared the snot out of me though. i deffinently got to get me some glasses, cuz that wasnt fun. cant emagine how bad it would suck to have a bigger, sharper pice in there. :o
thanks guys. i guess thats another one to go along with the mouth-numbing berrys. ;D
To parapharse: That which does not kill you makes you stronger. ;D
Glad you are okay. I wear contacts, and I get something under a lens about once a year that will scratch my eye. Not fun, I can sympathize.
Swamp
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the good part about a glass eye is, when you are sitting at the dinner table you can pull your glass eye out and drop it in your sisters iced tea when no-one is looking. although pretty gross and a waste of iced tea....the reaction for such a thing is well worth it.
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I had my left eye permanantly damaged at 19. Someone thought it would be a good idea to lite off a quarter stick just behind me and the plastic end cap found its way perfectly into my eye and lodged itself in there. Boy, was that fun!
They managed to save my eye by a cornea transplant, vitreous fluid transplant (stuff inside the eye), and a silicon rubber band around it to stabilize it, but now I have what they call a scleral shell. It's like a thick acrylic contact that fits over the eye to make it look 'normal'.
I basically should be wearing safety glasses to use the toilet! You never know sometimes things can be explosive...
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I had my left eye permanantly damaged at 19. Someone thought it would be a good idea to lite off a quarter stick just behind me and the plastic end cap found its way perfectly into my eye and lodged itself in there. Boy, was that fun!
They managed to save my eye by a cornea transplant, vitreous fluid transplant (stuff inside the eye), and a silicon rubber band around it to stabilize it, but now I have what they call a scleral shell. It's like a thick acrylic contact that fits over the eye to make it look 'normal'.
I basically should be wearing safety glasses to use the toilet! You never know sometimes things can be explosive...
Dang, that sucks. Episodes like this amaze me though. Given your description, I never would have thought they could salvage an eye damaged like that. Wow.
You know with as many close calls as I've had over the years I don't know why I've gotten so lucky. I finally did start wear safety glasses or at least a sturdy pair of sunglasses more often than not In my mid twenties, but not nearly as often as I should. Really stupid not to wear them even more. I've even gotten pretty good at wearing hearing protection and gloves.
Toilette safety glasses? Now that's funny! I'm sure there have been some sudden pressure changes coming from my bathroom, but I didn't think I needed safety gear. Now that you mention it the cats do run for cover every now and again. ;D
Swamp
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Ha! Ahhh, toilet humor.
Safety glasses are a tough thing to always remember. Even last night, I was cutting up a cow bone for some arrowheads and didn't have them on. I felt a piece of bone hit my cheek then realized and stopped the saw to get them. I never realized how common eye injuries were til I had mine. Then it seems like everyone has a story to tell.
My personal favorite party trick is to put my shell in my mouth and move it with the tip of my tongue, just peering out of my mouth. It's always impressed the ladies... 8) ;D
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ok well now i feel like a real idiot. this morning i thought the thing was gone, but as the day went on my eye started to hurt again, so i told my mom about it. she freaked. checked me outa school and went to the eye doc. pice of glass was right in the middle of my eye. after the 5 minutes of explaining that i did it while flint knapping, and explaining what that is, and yes, ppl still do that, and yes, they are sharp, they got the thing out. now i got antibiotic eye drops, andti inflamitory eye drops, a "bandaid contact" which is exactly what it sounds like, a contact that works like a bandaid over the scratch on my eye, and of cource, mom got me some saftey glasses. ;D
shoulda just listened to yall and the girlfriend and went to the doctor in the first place. :-\
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I'm surprised I still have my left eye, due to facial paraylsis I have no blink reflex in my left eye, so I'm always digging stuff out of it. Just came back from seeing my eye doctor and once and again I yelled at for not following her advice ::) I'm slowly losing my vision in that eye due to it being dried out all the time, I'm supposed to use a lubricating gel multiple times a day but I never remember. I told her I took up flint knapping since my last visit, after explaining what that was she rolled her eyes and threw her hands up and said don't come crying to me when your blind :o I wear regular glasses but should be wearing a shield or goggles but never do ;) :P
Probably gonna end up being known as Da one-eyed Yooper one of these days :-\
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Damn, son. I guess I should have gave ya'll some of those Safety Glasses in my truck when I left that bucket of rocks and glass. Should I ask your Mom if she wants me to pick that bucket up on my way back, Tuesday?
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NO! MY ROCKS! NO TAKE!
i got saftey glasses, two pairs actually. one from my mom and one from the girlfriends stepdad. im set.
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Did you get that knife?
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I bought some inexpensive safety glasses online for spectators to wear when I do demos and knapping lessons. They are a lot cheaper that having to hire an attorney to defend me or pay for someone else's eye surgery.
I hate wearing 'em when it is hot out. Sweat pools in the lenses and they tend to fog...beats getting chips in they eye though.
Jim
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mullet, my mom got ahold of the little guy and he said he'd drop it by sometime this week. aint showed up yet though. i hate to go take it, cuz the way me and him get along, he'd end up in the er and me in jail, so that wouldnt go well, but if he dont bring it ima go try to get it fairly peacefully.
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Hey Jim - you need a good high power fan! My garage gets mighty sticky in the summer down here in Fl. I get that thing cranked up like a wind tunnel! It's good for blowing out sawdust and stuff, too.