lesson learned the hard way

[SnoQ]

On Friday I was fragging some zoas using a Dremel with a diamond wheel to cut with. As recommended, I was wearing gloves since I know some corals like to play chemical warfare. I was wearing my regular prescription glasses, as I’ve done many times before, instead of safety goggles. I turned the frag and Dremel a certain way & a bunch of dust blew up under my glasses. I stopped and rinsed eyes out & didn’t think much more about it. The rest of the day my eyes were irritated, but not too bad. When I woke up on Saturday, my eyes were irritated a little more but by then I’d forgotten about coral getting into my eyes and I just thought it was allergies. By noon my eyes were on fire and I remembered why. I thought I might be able to get through the weekend and see my doc on Monday but in no time I was in agonizing pain and ended up in the E.R. The coral had not only caused scratches all over my corneas, but I had the beginning of a pretty good infection going on. I won’t go into the details of having that treated in the E.R. but let’s just say it was slightly short of torture.

I won’t ever frag without wearing goggles in the future and hopefully someone will avoid the same type of injury by reading this.

 

[Norahs_dad]

Thanks for the reminder I use that same setup somtimes and where glasses too so I am more lax about getting goggles out. Doesent hurt to be reminded that they need to be used for this. Hope your eyes and bank acount from the ER visit clear up soon with no long last effects.

 

[seakingaquariums]

oh man that sucks. get well soon.

 

[user 26995]

Thank you for reminding all of us of the possible dangers of fragging corals. We all do it and we dont stop to think about the possible injuries from it. Hope you get better soon.

 

[SnoQ]

It's a week later and my eyes are pretty much back to normal. My left eye, which was much worse than the right, was itching until yesterday. Since it hasn't itched today I'm hoping that means it's done healing. I'll keep putting the eyedrops I got from the doc in through next week just to be on a safe side.

 

[Jozee]

Glad that you're doing better - eye injuries are so incredibly scary... Good reminder to all of us to be cautious - Thank you for sharing.

 

[mercenary-grunt]

Glad you are doing better. Everyone needs to remember to always finnish the antibiotics from dr.s. otherwise we can be making that strand or bacteria stronger , cuz it didn't get killed.