ive had better days...And a small h&s warning...

[wisecobandit]

So it all started with squeaky brakes on the truck....

 

Ok bit of copperslip will sort the problem out. So of with the fronts only to find the squeal being caused by worn disc and the edge of the pad binding on a ridge. Ok big no no but as the ridge was on 1/16" wide what the hell I will grind it off and order new disc's tomoz as the squeal was driving me insane.

Ok decide im not spending an hour to remove the disc (4x4) so lets do it in place, Damn cant find the specs and as normal no time to look so grab the grinder and ensure sparks fly in the opposite direction. Only problem 1 of the over excited hounds runs past getting tangled in the electrical flex...

Hmm face full of metal grinding sparks and 1 eye now rather irritating and pinker than an albinos eye... So now stick it all back together and as my workshops 10 miles to the hospital...

So all back together and driving to the hospital and it drops a cylinder ffs so now its chuffing unburnt fuel smoke out the rear...

Get to a and e to find a full waiting room....

4 hours later get seen, hold my hand up saying what actually happened to be given a lecture on h & s...

Doc finds said metal burnt into pupil. 15 or so attempts later with a fine metal needle manages to scrape it off. Goes to compare it to other eye only to find metal in that one to but gets that out first time thankfully.

"not driving are you" no of course not, as im on the way out.... find the truck and drive home with numbed eyes which are full of ointment..

Stick diagnostics on truck to find "open injector circuit" so possibly an injectors gone done. Not to bad you say? Hmmm takes 3 hours to change the sparkplugs and the injectors are under them...

 

Starting to wish that today never happened :001_rolleyes:

[Goaty]

Relax those eyes and get to bed in the dark, have shades handy tomorrow. Ive been there needles and eye picking in hospital. Face wet with streaming tears. I got a rust stain on pupil and had to go back for another go.

 

Take care of them, I know that you cannot always see with ppe on what you are doing in shaded light situations etc.

 

Hope they gave you them brilliant eyedrops that sting like acid but dilate the pupil. They are very good.

[Gray git]

Nast, I squeamish as fook about eyes and had to have metal removed from mine before my last mri on my knee because if you go in that big magnet with metal parts in you nasty things can happen....apparently.

Yes those ointment dyes are fantastic, day glow yellow or green snot for about a day nd a half afterwards!

[wisecobandit]

Best I had was steroids in the eye or a bad case of arc eye, so bad they even took photos of them for training purposes.

Went bed that day just a little sore and woke up with eyes gunk up and streaming at the same time. Couldn't even open them. Super dooper steroid cream 10 minutes later pain free.

Yup still have the orange dye dribbling down the back of my throat at the moment yuk.

 

I know what you mean gray git. I should've learnt by now but the worse metal I had was as a teanager and they they had to inject to numb my eyeball rather than numbing drops! They strapped me into the machine and told me as the syringe was a few inches from my eye. I fainted and took the whole machine off the table being strapped to my head lol.

 

With regards to mri I had a couple on my back as had back issues. They mentioned about metal and I said not as far as I was aware. However just afterwards within hours my finger started throbbing, About 2 weeks later I had a small lump/wound on my finger and doing like we do found a needle and started digging only to find a stainless steel shard in it probably from my stainless steel welding job many years earlier. I assume the mri scanner almost sucked it towards the surface and got it moving from a place it prob had laid dormant.

[Haironyourchest]

Days like that make me feel like my number was up and I just scraped by due to good karma. Could have been a whole lot worse! Consider what fate might have had in store that you just avoided:

 

Run over by own truck.

Trepanned by grinder.

Grinder goes flying, cuts cord, electrocutes dog and his master.

Break repair completed but fails next day causing 50 car pile-up and hundreds dead and injured....etc etc...