YOUR EYES..... PLEASE PROTECET THEM !!!

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 .....Whatever you do , PLEASE DON'T let this happen to you !!!!

 

ALWAYS  wear goggles !!!   I cannot emphasise this enough !

 

  Just one time ,  I hadn't been , and came down with THIS [suspected 'irisitis'] . Extremely painful ...I wouldn't wish it on ANYONE , EVER !

 

  Dozens of squirts of different liquids into my eye , pressure blown into it , a visit to emergency , four hour wait to see an opthalmologist . Walk to the shops with an eyepatch on in our glarey west australian light . I have had it for a week , so far , and my vision in this eye has lessened , and become hazy , during this time . Can't sleep at night from the pain , have nightmares of people stabbing me in the eye.

 

  Anyway ,

 

  crew ...

 

  Just a longwinded way of reiterating ...

 

 take care of your eyes , PLEASE !!!! ...you only get one set , and if blindness sets in , you're rooted for life [pardon the french]

 

 So, I will not be sitting in front of this screen typing for a LONG while [It's KILLING  my eyes now , doing this , as it is , but I just thought I'd let you guys know in case you wondered why I'm around for a while ...]

 

   Needless to say , I have absolutely no intention of doing any fibreglass stuff at all [yes, fins included] , and cannot surf at all [THAT'S what HURTS the most , actually !] until WELL after this clears up [and I hope / pray the prescription eyedrops completely heal it , or I'm  done ?! ]

 

   regards

 

  ben chipper

 

 west australia

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Wish you a speedy recovery, so sorry to hear about your injury.  Yes, our eyes are precious!

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Sorry about your injury and I hope you fully recover.  We might joke about suffering for our art but there’s nothing funny about an eye injury.  

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Ouch!  That’s nasty Ben.  Were you wearing goggles?  Fiberglass is nasty shit.  Take your medicine and get well soon.  Mike

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I know exactly how you feel…I had an unfortunate accident with an exploding egg/hot water combo that put me (well, my eyes) totally out of commission for almost 2 months…I missed a job interview (and the job), couldn’t do pretty much anything. 5 months out, most of my vision has returned, but I still look seriously stoned most of the time…made me really appreciate my vision (and made me convinced that I really need to have health insurance!)

 

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Hope your eyes recover soon!

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Wow Chip

that looks painfull

looks like an eye contusion

use the meds and keep it patched ,, no rubby

hope it heals well and speedy.

 

If you need it removed call Wood Ogre he has a sharp stick ,,, pun

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Geez Ben, hope it turns out okay. Was this fiberglass or Agave (or ants)? As Huck said, SPEEDY RECOVERY!

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Hi Ben, looks pretty serious. 

I had some problems last year with irritated eyes, and had to see my eye doctor. I got some medicated drops to help them get better. I have regular safety glasses, but the dust was still getting into my eyes. Now I wear goggles that keep all the dust out when I sand. Works a lot better and I haven’t had the eye problems.

Take care, and let us know how things are going, Harry

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all the best chippy, speedy recovery. 

 

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Geez Ben, take care of that!

you only get 2!

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get better soon..dang!

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hi crew !

 thanks HEAPS for your kind thoughts and wishes !!

 

Well, this .....

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... is after three days of using three different kinds of drops every few hours . Still got a week to go on the drops , but thankfully vision has returned to my right eye . Now I have a Bowie-like larger pupil in my right eye [ I always WAS a fan of his music , but this is taking it a BIT far , I think ??!! ha ]

 

 I was very worried there for a while . It will still be ten days or so till I get in the water without needing two pairs of dark sunnies and an eyepatch all the time , the opthalmologist said . [So I will not be doing much computer time either yet. This is just an update for now. ]

 

And I have an aversion to doing any fibreglassing for a while , at the moment . But ... 'this too will pass' ?! [ hopefully , anyway !! ... as Popeye said , ME LIKES ME FIN-MAKING TIMES !! '  hahaaa  ....ouch ! " ...it hurts when I laugh " ]

 

  cheers !

   ben

 

( ..... ha !  I MUST have been blurry / in a lot of pain at the time I originally posted this thread , eh ?! .....I just noticed the typo in the title ...that is most uncharacteristic of me !!  hahahaaaa  )

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Good to see you doing much better Chippy!!! That thing looked wicked in the first picture…

Bowie was a pretty cool dude…")

I’m a relatively young 54 but I’ve had cataract surgery in both eyes… It’s amazing what they (doctors) can do…

In retrospect…I wonder if all those years of skimming across bright ,sparkling, diamond - like  choppy sun-lit  water when windsurfing and kiteboarding took it’s toll  on my eyes

All I need is reading glasses   (for reading of course) as well as board building…

All the best…

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    Howzit kiterider,I also have had cataract operations on both eyes and it is amazing how 1 day you feel like you are almost blind and 2 days later you can see like an eagle. The first time the day they took the patch off my vision was perfect but after the second it took a few days for my vision to clear up and be almost perfect.

    chip that was a nasty injury and m glad you are doing a lot better now. Yesterday I was bleeding my truck brakes and my nephew pushed the brake peddle without waiting for my OK and both eyes got sprayed and I was really worried but I ran and jumped in the pool and opened my eyes and rinsed them real good and no damage done. I was lucky since brake fluid can take the paint off your car so I can only imagin what it would do to my eyes. Aloha,Kokua

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Hey ben, are those eye drops made of mushrooms?, coz that eye is pretty dilated hahah.

 

 

Get well soon mate!!

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Hey Kokua.

Hey with a few more worn out parts changed out we’ll be the next  Bionic Men…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HofoK_QQxGc

 

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ben

so what exacly ws in your eye?

fiber glass???

lookd like you got a pterigium growing on it now.

the dialation of the pupil is probly from the meds,

 

I had a metal sliver in my eye for 3 days when I was young

it rusted in my eye and all the dr could do is grind it down

 

looks like your on the mend. youll be grinding fins in no time

use mx goggles

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Ben, I hope this means you are getting better.  Thanks for the warning.  I have a good pair of goggles and have begun wearing them again.  It would seriously suck to be blinded building board. Something I really have given very little thought to.  I have been worrying about my back, my crappy foot, the pain in my right arm and skin cancer, thinking one of them would bring me down and kill my surfing.  But with your eyes it could be just a nano sec of carelessness and you are on the bench stuck with just the memories.

 

all the best

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      Howzit kiterider,That's what I tell people ,that I have bionic eyes,ha,ha. Seems like we think alike. Aloha,Kokua