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Originally posted by Jason
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I believe glaucoma and high blood pressure go hand in hand. How's the latter?
Getting stuff in your eyes sometimes just happens. Last year at this time, I was getting into my mother's car and she turned on the A/C and something flew into my eye. Finally the next day the discomfort was so bad, I made an appt w/my Optometrist and was told that I need to go see an Ophthalmologist. WTH???? After some really cool peek in your eye stuff, he dug out a piece o' metal. Had to wear patch for a few days. Try walking around with only one eye working. I found the left side of each doorway I walked through for a day or two.
The doc also mentioned Glaucoma to me as well so more tests. After one test where you stick your head in a bubble/ball looking thing and hit a button everytime you see a small light, I was asked if I ever had a stroke. WTH???? again. No doc, I had brain surgery remember, I told you that. Oh. That would expain why you have a blind spot in the upper left hand side of your sight.
Don't tell wife that or that's where the frying pan will come from.
I also need new shop glasses as mine are scratched up and pretty much worthless. You're right, closing my eyes would be about the same.
Getting stuff in your eyes sometimes just happens. Last year at this time, I was getting into my mother's car and she turned on the A/C and something flew into my eye. Finally the next day the discomfort was so bad, I made an appt w/my Optometrist and was told that I need to go see an Ophthalmologist. WTH???? After some really cool peek in your eye stuff, he dug out a piece o' metal. Had to wear patch for a few days. Try walking around with only one eye working. I found the left side of each doorway I walked through for a day or two.
The doc also mentioned Glaucoma to me as well so more tests. After one test where you stick your head in a bubble/ball looking thing and hit a button everytime you see a small light, I was asked if I ever had a stroke. WTH???? again. No doc, I had brain surgery remember, I told you that. Oh. That would expain why you have a blind spot in the upper left hand side of your sight.
Don't tell wife that or that's where the frying pan will come from.
I also need new shop glasses as mine are scratched up and pretty much worthless. You're right, closing my eyes would be about the same.
I did the metal in the eye once. Caught a chunk while grinding, I had my glasses on but a piece bounced up and under and landed on my eye. Luckily it didn't go deep. Freaky seeing the opthamologist 's pick coming in to get the metal out.
Damn, Jonah. In true Jeeper fashion. You finish the job, THEN, go to the doc.
Have been considering buying a face shield. I try to keep my head out of the plane of the wheel, but I still shower my face in sparks on a regular basis. Doesn't help that I've been going without a guard on my grinder lately. Getting hit in the face with disintegrating grinding and cutting wheels is not fun. I've read about an old guy who caught a fragment in the carotid artery (neck), and died. Another bled to death after a shattered wheel severed his femoral artery (leg).
Many years ago I was cleaning an intake manifold with break cleaner (was just dusty) and a bunch came back and hit me in the eyes. They felt like they were on fire! I groped my way out of my garage and was helped to the sink of a neighbor to wash my eyes out. I knew better, but that incident really drove the point home to wear safety glasses. Now that I think about it, a few years prior to that I'd been cleaning a machine as it was running with a carb cleaner-soaked rag. Rag got caught in a belt and pulley, which squeezed the B-12 right out and flung it into my eyes. Good times!
Many years ago I was cleaning an intake manifold with break cleaner (was just dusty) and a bunch came back and hit me in the eyes. They felt like they were on fire! I groped my way out of my garage and was helped to the sink of a neighbor to wash my eyes out. I knew better, but that incident really drove the point home to wear safety glasses. Now that I think about it, a few years prior to that I'd been cleaning a machine as it was running with a carb cleaner-soaked rag. Rag got caught in a belt and pulley, which squeezed the B-12 right out and flung it into my eyes. Good times!
I think I am going to start a dumb stuff you have done to yourself in the shop thread.
Hows it coming along?
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