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Date Posted: 00:51:12 04/07/02 Sun
Author: Emerje
Author Host/IP: bgrcvx032188.prexar.com / 142.167.32.188
Subject: Well, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and crap like that. Ouch. (n/t)
In reply to: Gyo 's message, "Ok, I can see now, so here's what happened." on 23:54:36 04/06/02 Sat

>So, no permanent damage done, but damn did that hurt a
>whole lot!
>
>Here's what happened. Thurdsay evening, I break out my
>Armored core Zio Matrix figure which was total fragile
>crap, most of the extraneous bits have broken off and
>it was all loose. Still, it's a cool design, so I
>decide that it can and should be fixed.
>
>So, I go about fixing it, replacing the blade with a
>lightsaber, putting the two stupid arm pods on the
>backpack so they don't wilt, moving the gattling gun
>to shoulder mounting, and I use my dremel to make the
>holes, and yes, I was using my goggles.
>
>The goggles, they do nothing.
>
>Unbeknownst to me, a small piece of plastic had
>apparently made a home in my cornea, so, at 9 a.m. I
>woke up in literally blinding agony.
>
>My eye was red, I couldn't even open it without severe
>pain shooting through my skull, so I had to see the
>eye doctor (thankfully my sister was able to give me a
>ride, as my affianced only has her learner's permit,
>and I couldn't really tell her the way because at this
>point, I couldn't open my good eye without irritating
>the bad one.)
>
>Turns out that there's an abraision on my cornea. The
>current theory was that a piece of plastic lodged
>somewhere, was wiped out on my pillow, but still did
>its damage.
>
>I had to wear a bandage for most of yesterday, and
>spent the majority of it sleeping.
>
>The bandage came off today, and I can see clearly now,
>but my eye still aches, and I have to put in an
>antibiotic every four hours or so.
>
>I'm not sure if I'm going to give up customising or
>not yet. I'd like to, sure, but not if it's going to
>cost me my vision.
>
>So, in the future, I'm going to be wearing a long
>sleeved button up shirt, different saftey goggles, a
>face shield, and latex gloves if I'm going to be using
>my dremel, but that's not gonna happen a for a long
>time.
>
>So, how was you guys' weekend?

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