I finally convinced him to go to the ED so they could anesthesize his eye with drops, use that colored paper to see if he had a corneal abrasion and also see if they could get whatever he thought was in there out.
I drove him to the ED and they did just that. They couldn't find any foreign body in his eye, but he did have a few small corneal abrasions. Then the doctor told me to wash his eye out. I was going to do it the old fashioned way with a bottle of saline and a basin to catch the water. Lesa the ED nurse said no....let's do it this way. She put this thing that looked like a big contact in his eye, hooked it up to a bag of IV Normal Saline and flushed his eye out.
Since he eye was deadened he didn't show out like he did with me. He said that it felt soothing. But boy did it look freaky. I told him that he looked like something out of one the Saw movies. Here is a picture..
They put medicine in his eye, patched it and gave him a prescription for eye ointment. He is doing fine.
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OMWORD!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would duck tape a set of safety glasses to his head!!!!!!!!!! I told my hub i hope to never catch him w/ out a mask or glasses, cause if i have to be the one to wipe his *beep* because he gets laid up in bed i was going to use sandpaper and not double 00 either, coarse paper!! I hope to live a long life w/ my hub healthy. They always have to play Superman! Hope your hub heals well w/o complications!! WOW!!!!!!!!
Hugs,
Jackie
So glad that he is doing okay. Honestly, why do men not put on safety glasses? Whey do they go outdoors without coats when it is bad weather? Why do they do unsafe things that defy logic? Luckily for him you are a nurse and and talked him into getting treatment.
You being a nurse is probably the main reason he agreed to go to the ED (is that the new abbreviation for ER???). If that happened to MY husband, he'd probably just slap a piece of his sacred duct tape over his eye and keep on going. He's not Superman, though--tomorrow he's having surgery on his shoulder, so please think happy thoughts for him.
All's well that ends well!
(It's good to keep in the house eye drops for cases like this, sold over the counter).
Good grief! So glad that story has a happy ending!
Oh my. It looks awful but he seems to be smiling.
Thank you for posting that picture. It's priceless.
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