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Something in my eye
jimdeere
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I was outside my daughters Friday and felt something blow into my eye. I think it was a dandelion seed. I tried to flush it out to no avail. My wife couldn’t see anything in there. It hurts when I close or bat my eye lid.
I’m hoping to see the eye doctor tomorrow as I don’t trust the ER urgent care place with my eye.
Danged aggravating.
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I had a metal sliver stuck to the inside of my upper eyelid. Could feel it scratching my eye. ER folks said nothing there. Wrong! Went to emergency eye doc who used one of those long shafted cotton swabs to flip my eyelid up and over to get it out. What a relief.
Something the size of a pin head feels like a boulder
I took a low velocity 22lr bounce back several years ago...I had safety glasses on but they had a cheater lens...I lifted them up to see the front sight...pulled the trigger and saw the bullet come straight back...I was blind for a week but did not suffer any permanent damage...it was pretty scary!!! 😲
Combat Vet VN
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I had similar scenario as susie. Don't know how I got it but waited 3 days before I went in to an eye doctor! Got it out and he reamed me for waiting 3 days😜
My dad taught me to look down, grab my upper eyelashes, pull the lid out and down and drop it on top of the lower eyelashes. Then look up and release it, and blink. Many times I had something stuck inside the upper lid and that clears it.
Ohh, what a relief! The eye doctor found a tiny piece of something and removed it. Instant relief.
She said I could have called and they would have came in any time over the weekend. I suffered Saturday and Sunday unnecessarily.
Glad they got you fixed up!
Ya only get one set of eyes, take care of them! While breaching a door, the windows blew out and I managed to get a face full of glass. Couldn't see, but being young, dumb and in a hurry, I agreed to the guys taking me to a local ER rather than two blocks further north to the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins. Ah, how bad could it be right? The ER doc nearly caused permanent damage putting ointment into my eyes rather than flushing them out. Serious corneal scratching, etc. Ugh. The next day I was up at Wilmer and spent the next week without eyesight. Another lesson learned the hard way.
Good news