Cycling between offices at luncthime yesterday and picked up some grit in my eye. Continued to irritate all day and come bedtime I couldnt get comfortable. A bit of a furtle with a torch and a mirror and I could see a dark spec stuck to my cornea. A rub with a tissue only seemed to dislodge part of it into my tears, the rest remaining stubbonly attached to my eye ball and causing no end of irritation as it scraped the underside of my eyelid every time I blinked or moved my eyes in my sleep!
Luckily the Western Eye Hospital on Marylebone Road is on my way into work today. An hour for triage shennanigans in the waiting room before genius doc got me up in front of the lamp and declared I had a “rust ring” in my eye! The metal fragment had gone (last night’s efforts) but the rust ring that had formed around it was left attached to my cornea. A few drops of topical anasthetic and a quick swish with a magic wand and it’s all gone.
And then the anasthetic wore off half an hour ago. Ouchy, itchy, ouchy bastard! Can hardly focus dammit!
Had something similar 20 years ago when Steve my 6th form lab partner managed to shoot hot HCl across the lab and into my eye. Burnt three holes in it. Goggles are for wimps.