--- Rick Neville <healeyrick@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:19:47 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Rick Neville <healeyrick@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Safety glasses and eyeballs NOW a bit
> longish
> To: David Lieb <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>
>
> David,
>
> Perhaps you need some more incentive to wear even
> the
> uncomfortable ones. When I was in college I was
> installing an Abarth exhaust system on my Fiat 124
> Spider. A rust fleck dislodged while removing the
> old
> system and landed directly on my eyeball. In order
> to
> remove it, the opthamologist numbed my eyeball then
> told me I'd have to keep my eye open while he
> approached it with what looked like a dentist drill.
>
> He also told me I'd feel some "pressure" on the
> eyeball while he stuck the drill thingy in the
> aquaeous fluid to stir it up and float the rust
> fleck
> out of there. Needless to say, it was a most
> unpleasant experience, followed by a few weeks of
> wearing a big dumb-looking patch.
> If you want to experience what it felt like, try
> keeping your eye open while you touch your eyeball
> with your finger! (on second thought, don't try
> that).
> Maybe they have figured out some easier way to do
> this it the last 25 years, but I've always taken
> precautions since then to try to avoid finding out.
>
> Rick
>
> --- David Lieb <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>
> >
> Every so
> > often I try again, but I
> > have a hard time convincing myself that I will be
> > safer overall with the
> > glasses on. Do any of you out there have a good
> > source for that perfect pair
> > (of glasses, of course!)?
> >
> >
>
>
>
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