There's danger in them old Emersons !

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by bgadow

In my Dad's case, he was chatting with a friend who was driving a nail. The hammer struck a glancing blow...the 10 penny nail went flying. Bad luck. He has very limited vision in that eye...the doctors can't figure out how he can see anything.

You never can tell when the fickle finger of fate might leap out and, uh, poke you in the eye. One day I was carrying a flourescent lamp ballast up a ladder and one of the wires bounced just right-went behind my glasses and scratched my eye. Luckily it healed in a week. I don't want to do that too often.

Yeah, with my father, it is really weird, he was in his early 40's when the accident happened and now he will be 71 and he is getting some vision back. You got to be careful with your eyes when doing dangerous and heavy stuff. I also have a friend who gre up on a farm, he held a baby chick close to his face and it poked him in the eye. It took a week to heal, his vision was a little blurry for a while but it turned out OK.