2011
03.31
03.31
Something happened yesterday that I’ve always hoped never would. I managed to flick a small drop of catalysed resin into my eye while I was installing a fin system into a board. A few months ago I got this diphoterine eye-wash and figured it would just slowly gather dust in a forgotten corner. I got it on the eye in about five seconds and 30 odd hours later there don’t seem to be any side effects. Lucky boy now wearing eye protection full time. Dodged a bullet…
I spoke too soon! A little irritation and cloudiness in the eye developed. Raquel convinced me to remove my head from the sand and go to see someone, so I called in to an optician. He diagnosed a mild chemical burn and directed me to cleanse with a mild eye-wash before using gel tears to aid the recovery of the epithelial membrane. I have to say that it feels way worse now. Hopefully the discomfort is an investment in long term healing. Those safety goggles look kind of like a good idea about now…
Not good T – mind yourself. You can’t grow new ones…
too true, Muz… I’m feeling like a chump. I was somehow convinced that it was impossible to get that stuff in my eye. Did I tell you about my other close call? The one that has me wearing steel toe-caps now… I need to get ahead of the game instead of chasing it!
Hi Tom,
we soke about the DIphoterine a while back – the stuff you used was “out of date” which means it is not as efficient as it needs to be.
what i suspect happened is that the active Diphoterine cleared the surface chemicals, but did not get to neatralise the chemical that passed through the outer layers of the eye. This allows the chemical to reappear some days after the event.
Muzza is correct – mind what you have!
Call me to get the fresh stuff I promised