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Unpleasant trip to ER today...

jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
I was out biking and suddenly, fwap! Something hit my left eye. Immediately it burned with a pain unlike anything I have ever felt before. Fortunately I was already back on my street and was able to make it home. An hour of flushing with water and Murine didn't help and I had to go to the ER. When I got there they told me there was nothing IN the eye, but a bug had stung me, or bitten me upon impact. Possibly a spider or bee. To make a long story short, I'm ok, though have a raging eye infection and drops... and I do not recommend having your eyeball stung by a bee. If you thought it hurt when they stung on the skin, man oh man that's nothing.

"...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conf
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  • TazmuttTazmutt Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    OUCH Jonk ... That sounds like it would be most painful. Surely hope no problems (additional) arise and that your seeing clearly soon. I will fur shur heed your advice and avoid direct eye to bee * contact ! Regards, TM
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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    When I was a little feller living in northern Alabama I would always wear shorts in the hot summers that always seemed never ending.

    One day i was playing in the grass of our front yard not really paying much attention to what was going on around me other than my toys.

    To my horror a yellow jacket had climbed into my shorts and stung right thru my underwear right on the tip of the unmentioable.
    I cannot tell you what kind of pain that was for a little guy!

    Embarassed! No doubt about it. Ma rushed me inside the house so the neighbors would not see me holding the water works with both my hands and jumping up and down from one foot to the other. I believe also the high pitched screams shook her up quite a bit.

    Shortly thereafter the swelling began so much so that the water couldn't get thru the tap. Upon visual inspection, the area in question appeared to look like someone had taken a pool cue and shoved it inside a large red apple.

    My parents took me to the hospital where the doctors had to insert a tube with a clamp on so that I could go to the bathroom. Another! embarrasing and painful aspect to the sting

    The pain was excruciating to say the least. I was in kiddie hell for about a week. Since that time I have made it a priority to kill any insect that has the ability to sting and comes within striking distance to me.

    When you receive an injury to that area even Bill Clinton can't feel your pain!



    Edited by - alledan on 07/25/2002 06:42:22
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    Jonk
    Sorry you got stung or bit... you are going to be in severe pain for a while... Keep a close check on the eye and all should be okay

    On the same note, maybe some eye protection next time you are riding would be in order... I have seen far too many eyes damaged by bugs, flying rocks etc while a couple of others lost an eye completely...
    Inexpensive plastic glasses or goggles are great protection.. do not buy glass protection... a stone can break glass easily, and you end up with glass in your eye or worse...Just visulize a bug hitting the windshield of your car, and you have what happens when it hits you...So please, wear some eye protection...even plastic sunglass work great..



    One woman's opinion
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  • axlerfanaxlerfan Member Posts: 713 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    same thing happened to me when i was a kid. bee sting in the eye. couldnt see for almost 2 weeks, eye was swollen up so bad i looked like my face went 3 or 4 rounds with mike tyson. was pretty scary. it left scar tissue on my eye, caused my left eye to be much weaker than my right. take care of yer eyes buddy, only get two of em.
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Now thats got to hurt,Hope your feeling better!



    Best!!!

    Rugster
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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I thought that the eyeball didn't have any pain nerves? Maybe it's the nerves in the eyelid?

    In any case, I wish you a fast recovery!

    And, listen to BlackRoses about those sunglasses!

    G36



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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    Thing is, I always wear prescription eyeglasses and it still somehow managed to fwap up into the eye. (Typing this with one eye open and the other... well open and seeing but just barely open).

    I think I'd take the eye over the groin any day. I hope I never get first hand experience with the other.

    "...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conf
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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    OUCH

    That had to smart a bit, glad to hear that there isn't any permanent damage.

    Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem.Semper Fidelis
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  • j2k22j2k22 Member Posts: 329 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    had the same thing happen to me, driving my van. Bee was sucked in my open window, stung me on the corner of the eye, and blew back out so fast that I didn't really know what happened at first. Thought i got hit by a small rock or similar road debris. When the swelling and burning kicked in, I figured out the scenario. Probably a lot of one-car accidents happen this way, but the driver doesn't survive to tell the story, and everyone else is left scratching their head and wondering "why?". A pair of clear Wiley shooting glasses is a good investment of $30.00!
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,706 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you think a bee is bad... My brother was working in Houston for the summer the year he got out of college. He was on a softball team. He got a grounder right in the crotch. Severe pain, swelling, after a few minutes they drove him to the ER. The next day the doc cut his right testicle off. Today he has two kids, so I guess he got over it.

    "Not as deep as a well, or as wide as a church door, but it is enough."
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  • 4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
    edited November -1
    After reading all the above a kidney stone does not sound so bad,wish you a speedy recovery.

    "It was like that when I got here".
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  • daddodaddo Member Posts: 3,408
    edited November -1
    Next time BEE carefull. EYE sure would.
    Glad your o.k.
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wow, that was bad news. Was it a bee or yellow jacket ?
    Was there a stinger in the eyeball?
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've never had these experiences in either sensitive spot, but my glasses have, without doubt, saved one or both of my eyes at least three times in my life. A BB, a flashfire and the tip of an auto antenna (don't ask). Jon, I am so glad you are OK and I do have some idea of the pain, as I've had to have small bits of glass taken out twice.
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    jonk, you poor guy... That sucks. One of those one in a billion freak things, and it had to happen to you. Sorry, I know that sucks. But hey, the eye is supposed to be the fastest healing organ on the human body.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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