Well I have been out in the shop working away on my DD Jetta. When something falls down into my eye. Now when I was younger, this crap would just fall right back out. Now that I am approaching 40, this stuff sticks like superglue on your fingers. I spent the night tring to flush it out, etc.... Got up the next day tried to drive to work, yeah right, any form of light contrast wigs my eyes out now. Go home, call in, and goto the doctor. He does not find anything in my eye, says its scratched to hell. Gives me a couple of sets of drops and sends me off. I ask if I should be able to drive to work, etc.... Yeah that won't be a problem, he says. Get up this morning, start my drive in... Like hell it is still a problem. Go back on Friday to see what is up.

I look in the mirror which I avoid doing now, and I see my left pupil is 6 times more open ( dialated ) than my right. That explains the light contrast issues.

So long story short wear your safety glasses,googles, mask etc... I am now working on a computer wearing a pair of sunglasses. Serengeti Aviators if you must know and not those Cheap plastics they give you at the docotrs office.

I was able to drive down this afternoon and pickup the kids, it is grey and overcast outside, perfect weather for my eye issue with sunglasses on again.

anybody think it would be frounded apon to drive with a #10 welding helmet on? Hey it has auto darkening.

BTDT, had to go to ER to get the dirt out, it sucked

I feel your pain. I got an aluminum chip in my left eye (still have a visible scar on my eye). My wife had to drive me to an eye specialist north of Chicago to have it removed forcibly and they stuck things in my eye. Makes me queasy (sp?) thinking of it. I swear my eye bothers me now more than the other.

You wanna talk about eye issues...try a snowboarding accident that broke my orbital eye bone. This is the bone that holds up your eye socket and keeps the muscles from falling into the sinue cavity. I had to get surgery to pull the muscle out of the hole and have them place a nylon mesh over the hole to keep my eye in place while it healed. The mesh is still there.

-Britain

I got weld slag in my left eye (my good eye) and now it is scratched. My bad eye is 20/400 so I really need my left eye to stay good. I ALWAYS wear my sunglasses or safety glasses when working on the car or in the shop.

Ok Britain, you take the cake. I'll make a mental note not to do that.

Thanks guys for cheering me up a little. Miss fortune has a way of doing that. Brothers in arms type thing I guess.

I have had many mishaps with things falling in my eyes with trips to urgent care, so now I were googles or glasses and find they dont always work. Crap still finds a way to fall right through the lense into my eye. WTF....

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My eye is still healing from the damage that resulted from me getting something in my eye.

Last visit to the Opthamologist wasnt promising, Dr said I may never get the vision back the way it was..


Wear Safety Glasses

Ya, WTF! Sometimes you can waer googles that seal to your face and you'll still get crap in you eye! Some kind of voo doo..

Get into an eye specialist. Sounds like your doc missed seeing the speck. Nothing to mess with.