Not fun at all, I've had several pieces removed over the years. It's not pulling the metal out that got to me, it was the little drill they use to clean out the rust....something about the eye environment that makes metal rust real quickly.
Jacob Meuser wrote:
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:28:38PM -0700, Benjamin Huot wrote:
> The doctors couldn't tell me but they said it probably wasn't the laser. I thought someone in EUGLUG would be
> able to tell me.
>
> I'm sure if it was metal I would have felt something in my eye. When I worked at Sony Disc Manufacturing my eyes
> were more swollen and would have been more likely to be bits of metal. It feel pressure and irritation but not
> like something is in my eye like I would if an eyelash fell in.I used to work in a metal shop. One day riding my bike home from work,
I thought a bug or something flew into my eye. I pulled my eyelid,
rubbe my eye and thought it was gone. Later that night, it felt like
something was still in my eye. I looked in the mirror. Nice little
piece of metal (and I was working on the grinder that day, grinding off
burrs). I tried to swab it out with a qtip, but that just left cotton
on the metal. Now it was starting to hurt. Seeing the doctor pull that
out (went to two doctors, actually) was freaky. It took about 9 months
to fully heal (I wasn't using the eyedrops as much as I should have).Anyway, it was really painful, but at first it just felt like "an
eyelash fell in".--
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