What do you do about something in eye?

[me@privacy.net]

Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?

Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
debris from it?

Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?

Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
your eye could in essence disable you from getting
home. No?

[Bill Sornson]

me@privacy.net wrote:
> Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
>
> Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
> debris from it?
>
> Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?
>
> Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
> your eye could in essence disable you from getting
> home. No?

Try flypaper.

[Leo Lichtman]

<me@privacy.net> wrote:Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I have never had anything in my eye that did not clear up by just blinking
and eyelid pulling (a technique my mother taught me,) EXCEPT from
carelessness while doing shop work. If you try to prepare for every
possible problem, you would have to carry a large first aid kit, extra water
and food, a thermal blanket, a flare gun, cell phone, of course, and what
have I missed? Duct tape, tie wraps, a large number of tools, extra tires
and tubes and so on, ad infinitum.

It is possible to ride with one eye closed.

[Ben C]

On 2007-10-22, me@privacy.net <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
>
> Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
> debris from it?

Yes, that should be fine. Eye wash is just slightly salty water anyway.
If you don't have any water then think of something sad.

[nmp]

me wrote:

> Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
>
> Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was debris from it?
>
> Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?
>
> Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in your eye could in
> essence disable you from getting home. No?

I once took a tiny metal particle (yes, in a workshop) out of my eye with
the sticky edge of a piece of cigarette paper.

[Scott Gordo]

On Oct 22, 3:04 pm, m...@privacy.net wrote:
> Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
>
> Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
> debris from it?
>
> Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?
>
> Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
> your eye could in essence disable you from getting
> home. No?

Remove eye, place in wide mouth Pepsi bottle with 2" of Oranj Peelz
degreaser. Shake vigorously until eye is clean. Then, apply a light
lube, reinsert into socket, and on your bike!

/s

[A Muzi]

me@privacy.net wrote:
> Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
> Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
> debris from it?
> Or just not worry abt carrying anything?
> Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
> your eye could in essence disable you from getting
> home. No?

In 1988 I planned a quick overnight trip to Boston and spent the day
before prepping my car. I ended up with some rust/crud in one eye from
crawling around under my convertible.
http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/1965.jpg
It was a painful trip. Never had anything else like it before or since
in many years of cycling and wrenching. If it seems likely to you,
perhaps glasses or parachute goggles would be a better approach?
Motorcyclists speak of junebug-in-eye-at-speed syndrome but that seems
always to be 'a guy who knows a guy...' I don't know anyone who suffered
that.
--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

[vey]

me@privacy.net wrote:
> Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
>
> Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
> debris from it?
>
> Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?
>
> Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
> your eye could in essence disable you from getting
> home. No?

Most of the time, if ignored, it will come out by itself. I dunno how
clean the water in your average water bottle is, certainly not sterile.

[Tim McNamara]

In article <d0tph3tthda5uienck7u0a69ekd88gqgou@4ax.com>, me@privacy.net
wrote:

> Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
>
> Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was debris from it?
>
> Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?
>
> Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in your eye could in
> essence disable you from getting home. No?

Never in 40 years of riding bikes have I had such a scenario happen.
I've gotten bug, grit, etc in my eyes but tears flush it out quickly.

[Michael Press]

In article
<d0tph3tthda5uienck7u0a69ekd88gqgou@4ax.com>,
me@privacy.net wrote:

> Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
>
> Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
> debris from it?
>
> Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?
>
> Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
> your eye could in essence disable you from getting
> home. No?

Use your water bottle water
if you are _sure_ that it is good water
and there is no debris in there.

--
Michael Press

[Yme]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:04:58 -0500, me wrote:

I carry a couple AddiPacks small and sterile can't be beat.

> Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
>
> Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was debris from it?
>
> Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?
>
> Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in your eye could in
> essence disable you from getting home. No?

[thejen12]

On Oct 22, 12:04 pm, m...@privacy.net wrote:
> Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
>
> Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
> debris from it?
>
> Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?
>
> Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
> your eye could in essence disable you from getting
> home. No?

First of all, I wear cycling glasses to protect my eyes. Second of
all, I do carry a small (tiny) bottle of contact lense re-wetting
solution in my seat pack, in case I have a problem with my contacts
drying out (hasn't actually happened with my latest contact lenses,
but it used to happen with my previous ones). Third of all, I carry
plain water in one of my water bottles. I think that ought to be
enough to cover most situations.

Jenn

[Tim McNamara]

In article <471cfdc0$0$15371$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
"Bill Sornson" <askme@ask.me> wrote:

> me@privacy.net wrote:
> > Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
> >
> > Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was debris from
> > it?
> >
> > Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?
> >
> > Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in your eye could
> > in essence disable you from getting home. No?
>
> Try flypaper.

Now there's a mental image.

[doug.landau@gmail.com]

On Oct 22, 12:54 pm, "Leo Lichtman" <l.licht...@worldnet.att.net>
wrote:
> <m...@privacy.net> wrote:Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I have never had anything in my eye that did not clear up by just blinking
> and eyelid pulling (a technique my mother taught me)

You're lucky you had a mother. When I was a kid, we lived in a paper
sack. Every morning we cleaned the sack, and then went to work
fourteen hour days in the factory. At night, Dad would beat us to
sleep with a stick.

-dl

[Bill Sornson]

Scott Gordo wrote:
> On Oct 22, 3:04 pm, m...@privacy.net wrote:
>> Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
>>
>> Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
>> debris from it?
>>
>> Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?
>>
>> Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
>> your eye could in essence disable you from getting
>> home. No?
>
> Remove eye, place in wide mouth Pepsi bottle with 2" of Oranj Peelz
> degreaser. Shake vigorously until eye is clean. Then, apply a light
> lube, reinsert into socket, and on your bike!

That's ridiculous. Just spray some WD-40 on a rag, wipe eye, dribble on
some White Lightning in socket, dab up extra and use on cleats, and THEN go
ride.

Clean, clear and quiet.

/b
> /s

[Paul Myron Hobson]

> On Oct 22, 3:04 pm, m...@privacy.net wrote:
>> Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
>>
>> Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
>> debris from it?
>>
>> Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?
>>
>> Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
>> your eye could in essence disable you from getting
>> home. No?

Scott Gordo wrote:
> Remove eye, place in wide mouth Pepsi bottle with 2" of Oranj Peelz
> degreaser. Shake vigorously until eye is clean. Then, apply a light
> lube, reinsert into socket, and on your bike!

Coke bottles work better. Just sayin'...

\\paul

[carlfogel@comcast.net]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:35:33 -0500, A Muzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
wrote:

>me@privacy.net wrote:
>> Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
>> Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
>> debris from it?
>> Or just not worry abt carrying anything?
>> Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
>> your eye could in essence disable you from getting
>> home. No?
>
>In 1988 I planned a quick overnight trip to Boston and spent the day
>before prepping my car. I ended up with some rust/crud in one eye from
>crawling around under my convertible.
>http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/1965.jpg
>It was a painful trip. Never had anything else like it before or since
>in many years of cycling and wrenching. If it seems likely to you,
>perhaps glasses or parachute goggles would be a better approach?
>Motorcyclists speak of junebug-in-eye-at-speed syndrome but that seems
>always to be 'a guy who knows a guy...' I don't know anyone who suffered
>that.

Dear Andrew,

Well, road flints can pierce things besides tires . . .

"In that same stage 9 [1920 Tour de France] the epic suffering of
Honore Bathelemy started when he had a hard crash. His back was so
badly hurt he had to turn his handlebars up so that he didn't have to
bend over as far. Yet that wasn't the worst of the crash. A road flint
had pierced and rined one eye. He was not only bleeding and beat up,
he was now half blind. Unstoppable, he removed the flint, re-mounted
his bike and finished the stage. We're not done with Honore yet. . .
.."

"Honore Barthelemy (who lost his eye on stage 9) finished the Tour.
His eighth place made him the best-placed Frenchman in a sea of
Belgians. He crashed several more times after his terrible fall in
stage 9. In addition to losing an eye and ruining his back and being
cut, brusied and bleeding, the later falls added a broken wrist and a
dislocated shoulder to his suffering. The fans, moved by his courage,
carried him after he crossed the finish line. He later replaced the
blinded eye with a glass eye, which he would occasionally lose during
bike races."

"The Story of the Tour de France," p. 57-58

According to the book, Honore Barthelemy finished third in the 1921
Tour, abandoned the 1922 Tour after several crashes, rode again in
1923, and showed up again in 1925.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_Barth%C3%A9lemy

Sounds like a fellow to keep an eye out for.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

[Booker Bense]

In article <13hq29pqp9rd6c2@corp.supernews.com>,
A Muzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>Motorcyclists speak of junebug-in-eye-at-speed syndrome but that seems
>always to be 'a guy who knows a guy...' I don't know anyone who suffered
>that.

I've gotten junebug in the forehead at 40+ mph on a bicycle.

_ Booker C. Bense

[Michael Press]

In article <13hq29pqp9rd6c2@corp.supernews.com>,
A Muzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

> me@privacy.net wrote:
> > Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
> > Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
> > debris from it?
> > Or just not worry abt carrying anything?
> > Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
> > your eye could in essence disable you from getting
> > home. No?
>
> In 1988 I planned a quick overnight trip to Boston and spent the day
> before prepping my car. I ended up with some rust/crud in one eye from
> crawling around under my convertible.
> http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/1965.jpg
> It was a painful trip. Never had anything else like it before or since
> in many years of cycling and wrenching. If it seems likely to you,
> perhaps glasses or parachute goggles would be a better approach?
> Motorcyclists speak of junebug-in-eye-at-speed syndrome but that seems
> always to be 'a guy who knows a guy...' I don't know anyone who suffered
> that.

The advice nurse at the HMO told me to stand under a
body temperature, gentle shower and let the water
run over my open eye. Turns out that this is a good
thing to do in normal circumstances.

Out on the road run water bottle water over an open eye.

--
Michael Press

[Ted Bennett]

IA Muzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

> me@privacy.net wrote:
> > Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
> > Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
> > debris from it?
> > Or just not worry abt carrying anything?
> > Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
> > your eye could in essence disable you from getting
> > home. No?
>
> In 1988 I planned a quick overnight trip to Boston and spent the day
> before prepping my car. I ended up with some rust/crud in one eye from
> crawling around under my convertible.
> http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/1965.jpg
> It was a painful trip. Never had anything else like it before or since
> in many years of cycling and wrenching. If it seems likely to you,
> perhaps glasses or parachute goggles would be a better approach?
> Motorcyclists speak of junebug-in-eye-at-speed syndrome but that seems
> always to be 'a guy who knows a guy...' I don't know anyone who suffered
> that.

Nice Corvair, Andy. Apparently you did not put much stock in the dire
warnings of Mr. Nader!

When I was but a callow youth I rode a motorcycle for a while with no
protection over my face, and received quite a blow from a junebug right
in the middle of my forehead. It was definitely me, not a
friend-of-a-friend. Closing speed was about 70 mph, and the collision
got my full attention for a few minutes.

As for the OP's concerns, a foreign body in the eye is hard to ignore,
and there's a good reason for that. The best thing to do is to rinse
the eye copiously and to pull the upper and lower lids away from the eye
so as to allow flushing of their ocular surfaces. If you carry a water
bottle, use that and don't be concerned about a few bacteria in there;
the eye has plenty of such residents already. In the absence of water,
pulling each lid out and over its partner can be effective in scraping
away the offending particle. Avoid rubbing the eye because that almost
always makes things worse.

In Andy's car-crud mishap, he suffered the result of not removing the
foreign body. A foreign body in an eye is subject to many surfaces
moving over it and soon becomes embedded, sometimes by a proliferation
of cells around it. If Andy's particle was ferrous, it is partially
oxidized and leaves a rust ring which is toxic to the cornea or
conjunctiva, and must be removed with a burr with the aid of anesthetic.
If you (Andy) never had it properly and completely removed by someone
who knows what they are doing, it's still possible, and advisable, to
scrape out the rust ring.

I find that wearing close-fitting glasses prevents most of these
incidents for bicycling and makes for a more pleasant ride. There's a
lot of crap flying around on and near roads.

--
Ted Bennett

[Tom Sherman]

Andrew Muzi mused:
> ...
> Motorcyclists speak of junebug-in-eye-at-speed syndrome but that seems
> always to be 'a guy who knows a guy...' I don't know anyone who suffered
> that.

I got hit in the neck and face by june bugs while riding a motorcycle at
night. Made me glad I was wearing a full face helmet.

I got a gnat in a eye while riding a bicycle, which was quite painful
for a couple of minutes.

On a "chip seal" road, I had an idiot in a car coming my way in the
opposite lane at about 70 mph. I ducked my head behind my Zzipper Road
fairing [1] as the car went past. The rock thrown up left six dime to
nickel diameter half-moon shaped marks on the fairing.

[1] Very much like this one, and on a similar bicycle:
<http://www.zzipper.com/images/prod_LWB/image004.jpg>.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
Beer - It's not just for breakfast anymore!

[datakoll]

ahhhh, andrew muzi had a splinter or cut.
everyone wears $150+ sunglasses or yorktowne optical clipons.
local pharmacy has saline eyewash for after waterbottle. like tears
but medicinal, copious.
as for the beatles, yawl have seen ratha large beetles, yes? and
horseflies, white faced wasps, thrown 2B at 45 mph plus yawl oncoming
at 11.5 or so, thrown nitric acid, BIRD ****!....

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per vey:
> Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
>>
>> Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
>> debris from it?
>>
>> Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?
>>
>> Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
>> your eye could in essence disable you from getting
>> home. No?

I carry water in old GatorAde bottles that have a top that will
squirt a stream. I don't leave them full overnight, and I
Clorox them periodically.

When I'm surfing, they're handy for flushing out a folded
contact.

When riding I just wear glasses and I've only had one episode of
something in my eye and that was just a couple weeks ago and it
was *bad*.....

Totally disabled from riding and hardly able to stand - almost
rode into the brush.

Tried a little flushing, but I think what got it out mostly was
keeping the eye closed for about fifteen minutes.

Dunno what happens with it closed, but somehow things seem to get
flushed out.
--
PeteCresswell

[datakoll]

then there's google search, yawl herd of this, no?

http://www.google.com/search?q=eye+first+aid&rls=com.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GGLJ

[datakoll]

- delete ignoirance -

read this

http://books.google.com/books?um=1&q=wilderness+first+aid&btnG=Search+Books

http://books.google.com/books?id=3kNEq6fWHtkC&pg=PA324&dq=mountaineering+first+aid&ei=FBcdR7a0KYiS7gKuh9mTBQ&sig=ZgSeXOFsyr7v9p8Hl0o_trleF4Q

[datakoll]

clorox? walmart 91% isopropyl CHOH - please reuse.

[datakoll]

- illuminate text -

did the Honore have children?

[A Muzi]

>> me@privacy.net wrote:
>>> Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
>>> Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
>>> debris from it?
>>> Or just not worry abt carrying anything?
>>> Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
>>> your eye could in essence disable you from getting
>>> home. No?

> A Muzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>> In 1988 I planned a quick overnight trip to Boston and spent the day
>> before prepping my car. I ended up with some rust/crud in one eye from
>> crawling around under my convertible.
>> http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/1965.jpg
>> It was a painful trip. Never had anything else like it before or since
>> in many years of cycling and wrenching. If it seems likely to you,
>> perhaps glasses or parachute goggles would be a better approach?
>> Motorcyclists speak of junebug-in-eye-at-speed syndrome but that seems
>> always to be 'a guy who knows a guy...' I don't know anyone who suffered
>> that.

carlfogel@comcast.net wrote:
> Well, road flints can pierce things besides tires . . .
> "In that same stage 9 [1920 Tour de France] the epic suffering of
> Honore Bathelemy started when he had a hard crash. His back was so
> badly hurt he had to turn his handlebars up so that he didn't have to
> bend over as far. Yet that wasn't the worst of the crash. A road flint
> had pierced and rined one eye. He was not only bleeding and beat up,
> he was now half blind. Unstoppable, he removed the flint, re-mounted
> his bike and finished the stage. We're not done with Honore yet. . .
> ."
> "Honore Barthelemy (who lost his eye on stage 9) finished the Tour.
> His eighth place made him the best-placed Frenchman in a sea of
> Belgians. He crashed several more times after his terrible fall in
> stage 9. In addition to losing an eye and ruining his back and being
> cut, brusied and bleeding, the later falls added a broken wrist and a
> dislocated shoulder to his suffering. The fans, moved by his courage,
> carried him after he crossed the finish line. He later replaced the
> blinded eye with a glass eye, which he would occasionally lose during
> bike races."
> "The Story of the Tour de France," p. 57-58
> According to the book, Honore Barthelemy finished third in the 1921
> Tour, abandoned the 1922 Tour after several crashes, rode again in
> 1923, and showed up again in 1925.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_Barth%C3%A9lemy
> Sounds like a fellow to keep an eye out for.

Wow.
And I always thought Tazio Nuvolari was tough for winning at Monza on a
motorcycle with 2 broken legs. Bloody luxury!
--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

[datakoll]

faster still on the wings of heaven

[A Muzi]

> A Muzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>> Motorcyclists speak of junebug-in-eye-at-speed syndrome but that seems
>> always to be 'a guy who knows a guy...' I don't know anyone who suffered
>> that.

Booker Bense wrote:
> I've gotten junebug in the forehead at 40+ mph on a bicycle.

Good thing it wasn't in your eye!
--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

[doug.landau@gmail.com]

On Oct 22, 4:13 pm, bbe...@telemark.slac.stanford.edu (Booker Bense)
wrote:
> In article <13hq29pqp9rd...@corp.supernews.com>,
> A Muzi <a...@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>
> >Motorcyclists speak of junebug-in-eye-at-speed syndrome but that seems
> >always to be 'a guy who knows a guy...' I don't know anyone who suffered
> >that.
>
> I've gotten junebug in the forehead at 40+ mph on a bicycle.
>
> _ Booker C. Bense

How do you know it was a junebug?

[doug.landau@gmail.com]

On Oct 22, 6:17 pm, Michael Press <rub...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> In article <13hq29pqp9rd...@corp.supernews.com>,
> A Muzi <a...@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> > m...@privacy.net wrote:
> > > Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
> > > Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
> > > debris from it?
> > > Or just not worry abt carrying anything?
> > > Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
> > > your eye could in essence disable you from getting
> > > home. No?
>
> > In 1988 I planned a quick overnight trip to Boston and spent the day
> > before prepping my car. I ended up with some rust/crud in one eye from
> > crawling around under my convertible.
> >http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/1965.jpg
> > It was a painful trip. Never had anything else like it before or since
> > in many years of cycling and wrenching. If it seems likely to you,
> > perhaps glasses or parachute goggles would be a better approach?
> > Motorcyclists speak of junebug-in-eye-at-speed syndrome but that seems
> > always to be 'a guy who knows a guy...' I don't know anyone who suffered
> > that.
>
> The advice nurse at the HMO told me to stand under a
> body temperature, gentle shower and let the water
> run over my open eye. Turns out that this is a good
> thing to do in normal circumstances.

Why is it good under normal circumstances?

thx

[me@privacy.net]

>I find that wearing close-fitting glasses prevents most of these
>incidents for bicycling and makes for a more pleasant ride. There's a
>lot of crap flying around on and near roads.

This is probably the best action.... to PREVENT such an
even by wearing good glasses

[Leo Lichtman]

<doug.landau@gmail.com> wrote: How do you know it was a junebug?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Kuz it was June, dummy.

[Leo Lichtman]

<doug.landau@gmail.com> wrote: Why is it good under normal circumstances?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Just that it's never been tested under *abnormal* circumstances. Did you
have a shower in the paper bag where you lived as a child?

[Michael Press]

In article
<1193186092.070241.316720@e34g2000pro.googlegroups. com>
,
doug.landau@gmail.com wrote:

> On Oct 22, 6:17 pm, Michael Press <rub...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > In article <13hq29pqp9rd...@corp.supernews.com>,
> > A Muzi <a...@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > m...@privacy.net wrote:
> > > > Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
> > > > Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
> > > > debris from it?
> > > > Or just not worry abt carrying anything?
> > > > Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
> > > > your eye could in essence disable you from getting
> > > > home. No?
> >
> > > In 1988 I planned a quick overnight trip to Boston and spent the day
> > > before prepping my car. I ended up with some rust/crud in one eye from
> > > crawling around under my convertible.
> > >http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/1965.jpg
> > > It was a painful trip. Never had anything else like it before or since
> > > in many years of cycling and wrenching. If it seems likely to you,
> > > perhaps glasses or parachute goggles would be a better approach?
> > > Motorcyclists speak of junebug-in-eye-at-speed syndrome but that seems
> > > always to be 'a guy who knows a guy...' I don't know anyone who suffered
> > > that.
> >
> > The advice nurse at the HMO told me to stand under a
> > body temperature, gentle shower and let the water
> > run over my open eye. Turns out that this is a good
> > thing to do in normal circumstances.
>
> Why is it good under normal circumstances?

Small stuff collects in the margins of the eyes,
and on the skin of the eyelids and on the skin
of the eye orbit. Washing it out feels good.

--
Michael Press

[Leo Lichtman]

<doug.landau@gmail.com> wrote: You're lucky you had a mother. When I was a
kid, we lived in a paper
> sack. Every morning we cleaned the sack, and then went to work
> fourteen hour days in the factory. At night, Dad would beat us to
> sleep with a stick.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You obviously turned out okay, so, "No harm--no foul." But what did you do
if something got in your eye?

[Tom Sherman]

doug.landau@gmail.com aka Doug Landau wrote:
> On Oct 22, 12:54 pm, "Leo Lichtman" <l.licht...@worldnet.att.net>
> wrote:
>> <m...@privacy.net> wrote:Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?
>>
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> I have never had anything in my eye that did not clear up by just blinking
>> and eyelid pulling (a technique my mother taught me)
>
> You're lucky you had a mother. When I was a kid, we lived in a paper
> sack. Every morning we cleaned the sack, and then went to work
> fourteen hour days in the factory. At night, Dad would beat us to
> sleep with a stick.

I guess I was lucky to be raised in the forest by wolves. ;)

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
Beer - It's not just for breakfast anymore!

[Mike]

In article <BKxTi.264667$ax1.113927@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, l.lichtman@worldnet.att.net says...
>
> <doug.landau@gmail.com> wrote: You're lucky you had a mother. When I was a
> kid, we lived in a paper
> > sack. Every morning we cleaned the sack, and then went to work
> > fourteen hour days in the factory. At night, Dad would beat us to
> > sleep with a stick.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> You obviously turned out okay, so, "No harm--no foul." But what did you do
> if something got in your eye?
>
Obviously, his dad would beat it out with a stick. Weren't you reading or something!

Mike

[Michael Press]

In article
<CKxTi.264670$ax1.105607@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att
..net>,
"Leo Lichtman" <l.lichtman@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> <doug.landau@gmail.com> wrote: Why is it good under normal circumstances?
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Just that it's never been tested under *abnormal* circumstances. Did you
> have a shower in the paper bag where you lived as a child?

I have tested it under abnormal circumstances,
washing something out of my eye that irritated it.

--
Michael Press

[doug.landau@gmail.com]

On Oct 24, 1:10 am, Tom Sherman <sunsetss0...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> doug.lan...@gmail.com aka Doug Landau wrote:
>
> > On Oct 22, 12:54 pm, "Leo Lichtman" <l.licht...@worldnet.att.net>
> > wrote:
> >> <m...@privacy.net> wrote:Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?
>
> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> I have never had anything in my eye that did not clear up by just blinking
> >> and eyelid pulling (a technique my mother taught me)
>
> > You're lucky you had a mother. When I was a kid, we lived in a paper
> > sack. Every morning we cleaned the sack, and then went to work
> > fourteen hour days in the factory. At night, Dad would beat us to
> > sleep with a stick.
>
> I guess I was lucky to be raised in the forest by wolves. ;)
>
> --
> Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
> Beer - It's not just for breakfast anymore!

Luxury. We used to dream of being raised in the forest by wolves. We
had to live in a lake.