Bad Wrench! Bad, Bad Wrench!

Unit 5302 · 08-30-2001, 11:37 PM

Yeah, well, I may have that beat...

It was a couple years ago, you know, one of the 6 consecutive years without medical coverage for myself. I was workin on drum brakes. As usual, lot's of profanity.

I was attempting to install one of the springs. Having very little luck, with of all the tools, a needle nose. I didn't have room for the other stuff, appearently? I don't remember quite why I was being stupid.

Anyway, as I'm heave-ho on this damn spring, you guessed it, the needle nose slips off. I know what you are thinking. It wacks me in the head, or stabs me in the arm or face. Well the latter, kinda.

I stabbed myself in the eye. Yeah... that REALLY sucked *** . About 2-3 sec later, I was totally blind in one eye. Of course panicked, and well on the way to setting a profanity record, I yell at my dad, who attempts to tell me to go to the hospital. I instead elect not to be charged 1000's of dollars and go downstairs to the sink. I can see I have a film of blood over my eye, so I rinse with water for a few seconds, stinging like hell, but suddenly, I CAN SEE AGAIN!! I got myself in the white of the eye, must have rolled my eye's instinctively? Who knows, but it took a few minutes to where I could see without it clouding up for me. For a couple days after, if I went to look at the injury spot, had to roll eye and pull eyelid a little, it would start to bleed again. That was probably the most scared I've ever been in my life, actually.

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08-30-2001, 11:37 PM	#8
Unit 5302 Registered Member Join Date: May 1999 Posts: 5,246	Yeah, well, I may have that beat... It was a couple years ago, you know, one of the 6 consecutive years without medical coverage for myself. I was workin on drum brakes. As usual, lot's of profanity. I was attempting to install one of the springs. Having very little luck, with of all the tools, a needle nose. I didn't have room for the other stuff, appearently? I don't remember quite why I was being stupid. Anyway, as I'm heave-ho on this damn spring, you guessed it, the needle nose slips off. I know what you are thinking. It wacks me in the head, or stabs me in the arm or face. Well the latter, kinda. I stabbed myself in the eye. Yeah... that REALLY sucked *** . About 2-3 sec later, I was totally blind in one eye. Of course panicked, and well on the way to setting a profanity record, I yell at my dad, who attempts to tell me to go to the hospital. I instead elect not to be charged 1000's of dollars and go downstairs to the sink. I can see I have a film of blood over my eye, so I rinse with water for a few seconds, stinging like hell, but suddenly, I CAN SEE AGAIN!! I got myself in the white of the eye, must have rolled my eye's instinctively? Who knows, but it took a few minutes to where I could see without it clouding up for me. For a couple days after, if I went to look at the injury spot, had to roll eye and pull eyelid a little, it would start to bleed again. That was probably the most scared I've ever been in my life, actually.