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Sitting and Day Dreaming => Mud Puddle => Topic started by: mynameismud on January 12, 2019, 09:56:12 PM
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I went to to Optometrist on Thursday to get my eye exam and a new pair of glasses since it has been a few years. Nice doctor, went smoothly. Today I went for the first ride of the year. Dog was very happy and got to race another dog and win. About in the middle of the ride there is some semi technical terrain. In places it is over grown. Well in this one spot I was focusing on the roots and stump and missed the mostly dead bush on my right.
Next thing you know my glasses are kind of off kilter and there is a small twig sticking out of my eye. That was weird, I could feel it coming out from between my eyelids. So I pulled it out. I am in a bit of a panic here, did not really want to be blind in one eye. When I pulled it out I could tell it was in there a little bit but not real deep. Just deep enough I could feel it pull out. So I covered my eye and started the walk out.
After a bit my eye stopped being a complete spigot and my nose wasn't running so much so I ventured out and opened my eye a bit. I could see but there was a blurry spot in the middle. Felt much better at this point. Managed to ride most of the way by keeping the one eye closed. By the time I got out to parking lot I could mostly see out of that eye.
Went to urgent care and they referred me to the local emergency room. The Emergency room flushed my eye, looked at it with many lights and machines and stated, not to bad. Turns out the twig went up under my eye lid, scratched my cornea a little, buggered the white part of my eye and the under part of my upper eye lid. Not to bad. In the quick vision test they gave me the right eye under performed a bit. See the eye Doc on Monday.
Was a beautiful day out and the trails were in really good shape. Probably stay home tomorrow.
Here's to sweat in your eye (not twigs)
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Wonderful. It’s always nice to start Sunday morning with a story that makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
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Almost ahit a brick reading the first part. Safety third!
Good day to be alive!
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Not as sore or a sensitive today and the vision seems better. Perhaps a bit of a halo. Think it will be alright. I did wake to a ton of guck covering that eye.
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You are a lucky man and I hope this all turns out okay for you. Guck in the eye would definitely be expected as your body reacts to the foreign invasion. I imagine the hospital flushed everything out thoroughly to minimize the chance of infection. I would also think they would at least have given you some kind of eye-specific antibiotic ointment to put in your eye while it is healing. Scratching the cornea is usually pretty painful for several days - I've done that on several occasions. The ophthalmologist can give you numbing drops for the pain if you need it.
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Almost ahit a brick reading the first part.
I hope the edges were rounded :rolleyes:
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I have ointment to put in the eye and they flushed it fairly thoroughly. I think I am fortunate on this one. It is sensitive today but not bad. Just a tad blurry but getting better. I may lose jut a bit of focus but not enough to make a difference and I already wear glasses. Yeah, I have scratched corneas before, once when I got kicked in the face playing soccer.
My part time pirating days.
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My part time pirating days.
(http://www.mudncrud.com/MudGallery/_data/i/upload/2019/01/13/20190113125355-bf9a75ef-th.jpg)
Arrrrrrrgh! :arf:
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All good fun until someone gets a stick in the eye.
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Yes safety 3rd.
Heal up. And get some real riding glasses, to go over your real glasses.
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Mud's guardian angel must be in therapy and on meds for stress. :)
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Mud's guardian angel must be in therapy and on meds for stress. :)
Yeah. Uh, it's been her way of life for decades now.
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I have always said my MOM had to go to Heaven because I put her through Hell.
Not intentionally, just, well you guys get it.
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The good news: my eyes are fine and, in fact, no-one in the Young household was hurt at all. Also, it did not hit our house, it hit our neighbor's, and no-one was in it at the time.
But oh man, that was a very long cracking noise, followed by a loud, loud BOOM. Very easy to hear over the howling, howling winds. Scary.
The bad news:
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whoa! TuCo is dangerous!
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How is your eye doing Mud?
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Glad no one was hurt Brad.
I bet life is exciting around the clink compound with all this rain falling on already saturated ground.
It should stop after today.
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Ouch!
Eye is much better, just a bit uncomfortable at times. Should be fine in a couple of days.
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Eye is much better, just a bit uncomfortable at times. Should be fine in a couple of days.
Excellente! :thumbup: :biggrin: :yesnod:
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Eye is much better, just a bit uncomfortable at times. Should be fine in a couple of days.
Oh goody. Just in time to go do something crazy on one of those mountainy-bike things again. You should save yourself (what's left of yourself?) for climbing.
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Will be rope soloing and riding the mtb tomorrow (not at the same time).
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Oh goody. Just in time to go do something crazy on one of those mountainy-bike things again. You should save yourself (what's left of yourself?) for climbing.
Don't worry, Mud is bicyclable.
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Hey Clink. Check your Forum Messages.
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Done
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Jeezuz Brad!! Glad all are okay.
See it's not safe living in the country.
Does that mean you will be remodeling?
And Mr Mud turn on your tracker so I can watch you suffer.
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My part time pirating days.
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You realize that you have open season on tall tales for the foreseeable (pun intended) future? I would add in some vampire bats and a few tarantulas.
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F4 that was Brad's neighbor's house, not his.
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I am looking for routes to steal.
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F4 that was Brad's neighbor's house, not his.
I thought the house looked different.
Still, makes me glad to live in the suburbs. Power stays on and no falling trees.
I think the country is dangerous.
I am looking for routes to steal.
Always thought your license plate should be MUDPRT, but then folks would take it the wrong way (or not).
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I thought the house looked different.
Oh it looks different all right.