Scratched cornea

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Tonight at dinner our two year old decided to stick his finger in Bill's eye. Gave Bill a pretty good scratch to his eyeball. The actual "tear" to the cornea is visible, above and to the right of the pupil. It appears to be a scrape, not just a straight-line cut. It's about 1mm square. He says there's not much pain, just a itchy, lash-in-the-eye feeling, and his vision is a bit blurry.

How bad of an injury could this be? What should we do to help healing? Is his vision going to stay blurry?!
 
It will heal doing nothing. We used to patch the eye but quit doing that 10 years ago. Just tell him to go to bed and it should be almost healed by tomorrow.
 
And he can work miracles too - Bill is in Chicago and he is healing him from AZ while Bill has to do nothing!! AMAZING!
 
I_Money said:
And he can work miracles too - Bill is in Chicago and he is healing him from AZ while Bill has to do nothing!! AMAZING!
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He must really be a miracle worker if he teleported Bill from our house in Indy back to Chicago! :laff:


(We lost the house in Chicago 2 years ago.)
 
My Flight Surgeon said:
It will heal doing nothing. We used to patch the eye but quit doing that 10 years ago. Just tell him to go to bed and it should be almost healed by tomorrow.
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I wish that were the case with me. :( Stupid me, (who usually doesn't wear her contact lenses on planes), left mine on for the short flight from New Orleans to IAH, planning to take them off between connections at IAH, but my flight was delayed and I had to run through IAH,.... but to get to the point, I didn't get a chance to take them off until my flight from IAH to SFO. My eyes were dry by then, and when I took my contact lenses out mid-flight, I scratched my cornea. This was at the end of April, when my son played the New Orleans Jazz Fest. I'm still having problems and visiting the eye doc over it. :(

Also, my ex-husband once left his contact lenses on too long while doing his Ob-Gyn residency. He was on a 36-hour shift and fell asleep in the on-call room with his contact lenses on. He severely scratched his cornea, had to take a week off work because of it, and although his vision is fine with his glasses, he's never been able to wear contacts since that fateful night of his residency.

Sorry to sound like a bummer here, but I wanted to warn people to be gentle with their eyes....especially when they dry out at altitude.
 
SkyCougar said:
I wish that were the case with me. :( Stupid me, (who usually doesn't wear her contact lenses on planes), left mine on for the short flight from New Orleans to IAH, planning to take them off between connections at IAH, but my flight was delayed and I had to run through IAH,.... but to get to the point, I didn't get a chance to take them off until my flight from IAH to SFO. My eyes were dry by then, and when I took my contact lenses out mid-flight, I scratched my cornea. This was at the end of April, when my son played the New Orleans Jazz Fest. I'm still having problems and visiting the eye doc over it. :(

Also, my ex-husband once left his contact lenses on too long while doing his Ob-Gyn residency. He was on a 36-hour shift and fell asleep in the on-call room with his contact lenses on. He severely scratched his cornea, had to take a week off work because of it, and although his vision is fine with his glasses, he's never been able to wear contacts since that fateful night of his residency.

Sorry to sound like a bummer here, but I wanted to warn people to be gentle with their eyes....especially when they dry out at altitude.
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Off topic - you were married to a Gyno Doc? Was that um... weird in any way?
 
Ian J said:
Off topic - you were married to a Gyno Doc? Was that um... weird in any way?
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I was with him for 25 years, including all of the very hard years of school and residency. And no Ian, it wasn't weird in any way. Just strange women coming up to you in public and asking you if you're Dr. S's wife. That one always threw me a little because I'm thinking in the back of my mind, "Why do they care? - how do they know who I am?(duh, he had my photo on his desk) - and I hope that their delivery/and or surgery went well". It was always to give me a compliment about him as a physician, or ask me how I put up with his crazy hours/life. OB's have amongst the worst call schedules of any medical specialty.

As far as what you may really want to know...LOL...nah, looking at that all day doesn't affect what happens at home. He actually knows the female anatomy quite well though! Listening to women talk and complain all day though did affect our marriage. He gave at the office and wasn't in the mood to talk much when he got home.
 
I think this thread gets the award for "Most Changed Inter-Thread Topic of the Year" :D

From scratched eyeballs to gynecology....... :laff:
 
SkyCougar said:
I wish that were the case with me. :( Stupid me, (who usually doesn't wear her contact lenses on planes), left mine on for the short flight from New Orleans to IAH, planning to take them off between connections at IAH, but my flight was delayed and I had to run through IAH,.... but to get to the point, I didn't get a chance to take them off until my flight from IAH to SFO. My eyes were dry by then, and when I took my contact lenses out mid-flight, I scratched my cornea. This was at the end of April, when my son played the New Orleans Jazz Fest. I'm still having problems and visiting the eye doc over it. :(
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Similar thing happened to me once. The contacts peeled itself halfway off and when I went to remove it I actually pinched my eyeball. My vision wasn't affected but I had a red, irritated eye for a couple of days.

Lately, when I wake up I feel like there is something under my eyelids. The feeling goes away after being awake for an hour or two. What could it be? I also sometimes see lightning-like flashes. These happen rarely though and only once at a time.
 
It's doing much better now. The day after it happened, his vision was still blurry, so he ended up going in to see his GP about it. She did the dye thing and got a good look at it, and said it was a pretty good scratch, but nothing that's going to leave any lasting damage. She gave him some antibiotic drops and explained the blurriness was due to the proximity of the injury to the pupil. As it's healing it swells up a bit, and distorts the vision for a little while. Yesterday he said it was MUCH better, and the blurriness is 99% gone. There's no more pain or itchy feeling, so it looks like he's going to pull through ;)

He was especially panicked because Nov is his medical-due month, and he knew he wouldn't pass the vision part with the blurriness he initially had. He's going back up to his old AME in ORD, and he was able to get an appointment for early next week. So the eye will be fine by then.
 
MQAAord said:
I think this thread gets the award for "Most Changed Inter-Thread Topic of the Year" :D

From scratched eyeballs to gynecology....... :laff:
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Heck, I don't know Amber, at least it's still somewhat medical related! :) I've seen so many threads go WAY off topic.
It's always only a matter of time before non-medical people ask me if it's weird to be married to an OB/GYN - I guess it's just a natural question for most people.
 
Ha, I was just going to post something about this.

I got a rubber band chain snapped back at my face due to my brothers contraption for testing bungee jumping things from our banister. Well my symptoms sound just like Bill's "itchy lash-in-the-eye", and some blurred vision. Although I do have a bit of a good "headache" on the right side of my face. (the side it hit)

Its nice to know that this will just heal on its own. I was really kinda freaking out for a bit.

I love JC.:D
 
Different kind of trauma. If you still have blurry vision in the morning, get seen!!! Being struck by a rubber band can cause a detached retina.
 
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