[Jewelry making - Article 01071] - Re: [Orchid] X-rays for your eyes!

[Neil George]

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    Maybe my little story with the eye doctor will enforce the need for
    eye protection. In the early 90's, I had a piece of steel in my eye
    from using a grinding wheel, and it was microscopic. Nobody could see
    it, and tried washing to no avail. In fact the saline solutions only
    aggravated the matter, because the salt increased the rate of rust
    that was going on with the piece. The day I went to see the eye
    doctor, was the morning I woke up with a blinding headache and the
    sun light was killing me. This was 4 days later. I figured it would
    work its way out, but of course it didn't, and it was now embedded
    solidly in place. Not the smartest thing I have ever done, in fact it
    was stupid. 

    Anyway, having my head positioned in a head mounting fixture :-)  he
    proceeded to examine my eye, and then told me he had to drill it
    out. I thought, he must be joking right?, no such luck. He had to
    drill, because now it was under the skin per say, remove the piece
    with tweezers, and then drill again will a ball burr to clean out the
    rust. 

    He gave me some eye drops to numb my eye, and about 10 minutes later
    told me, don't blink and look straight ahead. I'm thinking, easy for
    you to say tough guy, it's my butt on the line here. I stopped
    blinking, then he told me not to move my eyes. 3 times he told me not
    to move my eyes, but I kept watching and following that drill come
    right in, very weird I can tell you. I told him I would rather be
    outside wrestling a 500lb gorilla right now, than be sitting in that
    chair. Anyway, having a drilling operation done to your eye, and
    literally watching it being done, is not very pleasant to say the
    least, and I would not wish it on anyone. I could have sworn, I had
    clean underwear on when I went in :-) 

    Looking back, I can laugh at being in that chair and looking like a
    cartoon figure, where the body is frozen stiff,  the hair is sticking
    right up, and the eyes are wiiiiide open and looking around, but in
    reality, at the time, I would have given anything not to be in that
    predicament. 

Best Regards.
Neil George
954-572-5829

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