Do you play sports, such as tennis or baseball? Do you use a lawn mower or a lawn trimmer? Do you like to do carpentry? These and many other daily activities put people at risk for eye injuries. Eye injuries are common, especially impact injuries (that is injuries caused by something striking the eye). These injuries can range from a mild corneal abrasion to hyphema (bleeding into the anterior chamber of the eye) retinal detachment, penetration of the eye, or a ruptured globe (the eye breaking open). Sounds gruesome doesn't it. The good news is that some eye injuries heal with no after-effects, but (and there is always a "but") others result in impaired vision or (especially in the case of a ruptured globe) loss of the eye. The worst part of all this news i

Md. Zagelbaum , Bruce M. Sports Ophthalmology. August 1996.

Now I would like to take al little bit of your time to tell you how I lost my eye. As all of you may, or may not have noticed, I have a prosthetic eye (it's my right eye). In the summer of 1993 I was outside my house when I heard my wife scream. I ran around the house to the front door, now I am not what you would call a small person, and upon arriving there the porch caved in on me. Don't worry I was OK at that point and my wife had just seen a rat, which was the reason for the scream, but now I had a porch with a big hole (I don't think the porch was large person compliant). At this point I was actually happy, you see I like to build things with tools and wood. Here was the perfect opportunity to indulge myself with something I like doing. So off to work my friends and I went. First the demolition. The wood, however, on the porch was so old that it had fused together. This made it almost impossible to get a crowbar or the claws of a hammer between the wood to pull them apart. With this dilemma at hand I decided to start my claw hammer at the joining of the wood and take another hammer and tap my hammer under the wood. This worked perfectly for the first couple of planks of wood. So on I went with my ingeniousness. As I was going along I had created a spark from the striking of the heads of the two hammers. This spark made it's way to my right eye, were it struck right dead center of my pupil (I wasn't aware of this fact quite yet). Now this didn't hurt, it actually felt as though I had a piece of dust in my eye. So as I proceeded to wash out my eye I discovered blood floating in mid air. I was then whisked to the hospital right then and this was the last time I ever saw anything from my right eye.

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