It was a nice evening to go to Urgent Care...

XC242

Have you ever been standing there lighting your lump with a Looftlighter, hot air gun, weed burner, etc., and thought to yourself; "Gee I wonder what it would feel like if one of these burning embers that are flying around landed in my eye?" Can you say "Corneal Abrasion" kids? I thought I could get away with just having my regular glasses on, time to switch lighting styles or use safety glasses. Luckily it's not too bad, all I have is a follow up with Opthamology tomorrow. 

Will take another run at that spatchcock chicken tomorrow night...

Every now and again I like to let my inner idiot out for a walk, Doh!!

kdink

Wow,  Glad to here it was not worse!

CPARKTX

Oh man that sucks. Hope you are okay. 

northGAcock

Next time just set up outside the urgent care.......that way you can get right back to it. Maybe find someone with a good eye and hands to tend it while you get your pirates patch. Spatch on my Carolina neighbor. That same idiot lives here also.

bcsnave

@XC242 ..wow..you okay?

Just lucky you didn't drop the Looftlighter in the egg..have it blow up..start the house on fire..spark flames into the air and have them drift east to Elkhart Lake...

Wow..I feel lucky  myself now

KiterTodd

Ugh!  Sorry to hear that, glad it's not serious and thanks for the feedback.

I don't use a LL, but I have dumped in my chimney an had a big poof of sparks come up on occasion.  When they fly out and land on your foot...they don't tickle, but it beats a stick in the eye!

GATraveller

Cool.....did they give you an eye patch so you can look like a pirate? 

Glad it wasn't a lot worse. Best of luck with the ophthalmologist. 

Doc_Eggerton

Hope it resolves quickly, I use a Looftlighter and wear safety glasses.  Much lesser issue, but you can ruin a good shirt wearing while you are lighting.

XC242

Nope, no eye patch.  Just a small divot that needs to get checked out tomorrow. Appreciate the comments everyone. I gotta say, it was a bit scarey there for a couple minutes after it happened. 

northGAcock

XC242 said:

Nope, no eye patch.  Just a small divot that needs to get checked out tomorrow. Appreciate the comments everyone. I gotta say, it was a bit scarey there for a couple minutes after it happened. 

I hope you know I was kidding above. Sounded like you made out ok......hope it minds quickly. 

Jeepster47

Glad you're not going to suffer more serious problems.  And, thanks for the humerus reminder to protect our eyes.

XC242

@northGAcock, no problem, we're good dude. 

Lit

That's scary glad your ok

mgd_egg

Thanks for sharing and reminding us to be more safe. I always assume it won't happen to me but that's when they get ya. 

NPHuskerFL

Yep I wear my ANSI/OSHA approved sunglasses which are what I wear daily at work. I have the sunglasses and clear lense pair. I've had lump spark many times and they've saved my eyes for sure. I'm glad you're okay too. "Safety is no accident"

Ozzie_Isaac

Glad you are ok!

GATraveller

Really scary. I had gas spray in my eyes once.....anything that compromises your vision will make you panic there for a second or two. Let us know what the doc says. 

DaveRichardson

I've got a patient from a few years back who lost an eye in a shooting competition; had a ricochet fragment catch him.  He wears a pirate patch.  To make it worse, he was a shooting instructor for the Marine Corps back in his pre-pirate days.

As a joke, he brought us all patches one day and we all wore them every time he came in for appointments.  We had some fun together.

I've scratched my cornea once before right out of college; though I was a goner for sure!  Best wishes and a speedy recovery!

bcsnave

You know what they say..."IT'S ALL FUN AND GAMES UNTIL SOMEONE GETS THIER EYE POKED OUT"

StillH2OEgger

Hope there's no damage to follow. I think I can make do without a lot of things, but my eyes are not among them. All the best.

jabam

I got a piece of metal in my eye from grinding. Waited too long to go to doctor, wound up with a rust ring in my eye. Had to wear a patch for 3 days. Was not fun, first day I was starting to get claustrophobic, had to have Doc give me something to calm down. Glad your ok!!

Legume

Eye injury stories!

first, that sucks, glad it wasn't more serious.

me?  I tried to catch a fencing staple with my eye about 25 years ago, putting up some welded wire fencing.  Thankfully I was unsucessful and it just skidded across and left me with a lacerated cornea.  Eyepatch for a week, took some getting used to - keeping the other eye open is the challenge, that and eating sushi with chopsticks when you're drunk and lost your depth perception, all good now.

hope you heal quickly.

Chicklet

As your favorite ER/trauma nurse, please, please, PLEASE tell me they gave you some antibiotic eye drops and some numbing eye drops.  

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sctdg

Got tired of holes in shirts,now it is paper towel and vegetable oil .

The Cen-Tex Smoker

Holy crap man. Scary stuff. I've been very close several times. I switched to the oiled up paper towel a while back and it does work best for me. It's pennies per light and gets the lump lit quick and clean. I talked to Jonathan at Rockwood a few months ago and he said that putting a 1000 degree torch on a few inch spot of lump is a horrible idea (he was more eloquent than that). 

Wardster

I once had a cigarette jammed into my eye.  Good thing it was off center but it still sucked...

bluebird66

Ouch!!

chrisc133

Wow...I too have been close many times. I needed this thread to make me start wearing my glasses again.

XC242

I was really lucky, visit with Dr. today showed no significant problem. Just need to use eye drops for a few weeks. Got back in the saddle tonight and finished what I started. Wonder where my inner idiot and I are gonna go next time... Egg On!

DoubleEgger

That's good to hear 

Sammi

Glad it worked out ok.