Today my joke of a roommate found she had more $ than she thought, she found she had enough to get us one 7 gal tank of kerosene for our heater.
While trying to pour part of the 7 gallons into a smaller container so it would be easier to life to the top of the tank, the nozzle broke and splashed kerosene in my eyes. I ended up in the ER.
The treatment is more painful than getting kerosene in the eyes.
they take this thing, and insert it under the upper and lower eyelids, and it has a tube out the back and that's attached to the bags of saline.
The thing has hooks on it that hook tot he back of the upper and lower lid, and it feels like you got two bb size grains of sand under each lid.
Once they run the saline, while you're on your back, they keep changing absorbant pads under your back and head, because they soak up all the run off. Well they were so busy in the ER, they didn't change often enough and I ended up with the whole back of my jeans and underwear soaking wet. Well it's freezing outside, and there's snow on the ground, and I told the guy I didn't think it was too wise to be going out in the cold with a soaking wet butt. So he got me some "scrubs" bottoms and I wore those out.
My eyes are still kinda blurry, even though the doc used a special scope to check to see if there was any burning or cornea degeneration.
He said I'd be fine but my eyes will be kind of weird for a day or so.
So we go to the auto parts store, get a new nozzle, and I fill the heater tank, and we now have heat for a few days, and we're going to use it very very sparingly.
pics of the gizmo they put in my eyes is in my photo section
