matjoliver
Warren Scout
Well, I'm sitting here in a darkened room having a day off work, with a blurred eye that is bloodshot, typing this with the brightness turned way down
After continuing to build the new enclosure on saturday, I was fixing a part of the welded mesh to a frame with the 'u' shaped staples, when the corner of the mesh flicked up (it's quite thick mesh and tricky to unroll and hold down), firing the staple into my eye. :shock:
Luckily it bounced straight back out, but spent saturday night with no sleep and yesterday at the Brighton eye hospital to be told nothing in my eye, but I have scratched the cornea.
Needless to say, I will now wear goggles when doing anything with the smallest freak chance of something hitting me in the eye
If anyone's had the same thing, they know what it's like, and if you haven't - it's extremely irritating, feeling like something's constantly in your eye and it waters so much it makes your pillow soaked :lol: - plus makes your nose run like you've got a cold!!
Thankfully it's getting better, although light feels really bright (thus dark room) - I beg anyone not to be complacent with eye protection when doing anything!! Trust me, it's not nice and could have been a lot worse!!
After continuing to build the new enclosure on saturday, I was fixing a part of the welded mesh to a frame with the 'u' shaped staples, when the corner of the mesh flicked up (it's quite thick mesh and tricky to unroll and hold down), firing the staple into my eye. :shock:
Luckily it bounced straight back out, but spent saturday night with no sleep and yesterday at the Brighton eye hospital to be told nothing in my eye, but I have scratched the cornea.
Needless to say, I will now wear goggles when doing anything with the smallest freak chance of something hitting me in the eye
If anyone's had the same thing, they know what it's like, and if you haven't - it's extremely irritating, feeling like something's constantly in your eye and it waters so much it makes your pillow soaked :lol: - plus makes your nose run like you've got a cold!!
Thankfully it's getting better, although light feels really bright (thus dark room) - I beg anyone not to be complacent with eye protection when doing anything!! Trust me, it's not nice and could have been a lot worse!!