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Post number 13540

Greener — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 09:51:59 -0800

Woman glues child's eye shut ...I knew there was a reason for my paranoia. I hated (and still hate) eye drops.

By: BentPenguin

BentPenguin — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:05:35 -0800

This is actually a fairly common household accident. Opthalmologists will tell you that they see cases like this more often than you'd think. Why? Because cyanacrylate glues (the crazy kinds) are sold in the same bottles as eye drops, and the bottles are small enough that the lables equally small. So, if you need reading glasses, use eye drops, and have a thing for press-on nails... Which makes this a great example of a lame user interface leading to unintended results.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:08:24 -0800

Fascinating commentary ensues.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:10:14 -0800

Sorry. 10 yard penalty for unnecessary snarkiness.

By: dong_resin

dong_resin — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:03:50 -0800

It's not all bad. She won't have to see the The Majestic.

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:04:38 -0800

eyes wide shut, er, eyes glued shut. (at leats the girl is ok)

By: panopticon

panopticon — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:05:40 -0800

She won't have to see Vanilla Sky either

By: BentPenguin

BentPenguin — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:16:27 -0800

Or any of this ensuing (if not fascinating) commentary...

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:17:22 -0800

This is nothing. When I was little, my mom accidently sewed my eyes shut. I can't blame her, though, cause the label was unclear.

By: a3matrix

a3matrix — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:17:47 -0800

Giglio said she made the mistake because the two tubes looked very similar and were kept near each other. Brilliant. I wonder how many times someone in that house has tried glueing something back together (with the eye drops) only to proclaim "this glue sucks!!"

By: Greener

Greener — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:20:36 -0800

Eye didn't anticipate all these one-liners Ba-dum-tiss

By: msacheson

msacheson — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:24:16 -0800

a3matrix, thanks for my first good laugh of the day!

By: th3ph17

th3ph17 — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:28:04 -0800

my mother once put eye drops into her ears for a very bad result, bleeding, trip to the doctor etc... tiny bottles, tiny labels, bad combination.

By: glenwood

glenwood — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:30:58 -0800

Agreed, and I can't always proclaim to be the best father who ever walked the face of the planet, but I never, ever grab bottles of stuff and squirt them into my son's eyes without making damn sure I'm working with the correct substance.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:31:44 -0800

It's got to be better than mistaking silicone caulking for KY jelly. There's an emergency room visit I'd love to witness.

By: a3matrix

a3matrix — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:52:40 -0800

HAHAHAHAHA Crash!! You killed me with that one !!

By: panopticon

panopticon — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:52:49 -0800

I once put contact lens cleaner in my eye thinking it was rewetting drops, and it wasn't pretty - this was back in the day when cleaners were really toxic. But same story, tiny bottle, tiny letters, hell, i couldn't read it anyway, but while I was putting the drops in, I wondered to myself "How come the tip of this bottle is red?"

By: tomorama

tomorama — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:54:12 -0800

I refuse to use eyedrops. Putting anything in my eyes freaks me out. Now I have a reason.

By: UncleFes

UncleFes — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 12:10:44 -0800

There's an emergency room visit I'd love to witness. I used to live in the next apartment down from an emergency room nurse. She once told me: "Don't bother lying, we know you were sticking stuff up your butt.In my whole career, nothing EVER just 'fell up there.' " Forewarned is forearmed.

By: BentPenguin

BentPenguin — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 12:13:16 -0800

Crash: Since when does KY Jelly come in Caulk-Gun tubes?

By: BentPenguin

BentPenguin — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 12:14:33 -0800

Note that I asked when and not why...

By: UncleFes

UncleFes — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 12:21:00 -0800

we know you were sticking stuff up your butt Um, she meant "you" in the collective sense. She did not have the opportunity to remove anything from my personal butt.

By: DragonBoy

DragonBoy — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 12:31:54 -0800

UncleFes, She did not have the opportunity to remove anything from my personal butt. Sounds like a new years resolution for you.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 12:40:12 -0800

Hey, buddy! What's up your ass?

By: mdn

mdn — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 12:55:09 -0800

Jim Carroll told a story at a reading the other day, which he swore was true, that a friend of his recovered a tiny plastic toy soldier he'd swallowed as a kid, 20 years later in a high colonic.

By: crabwalk

crabwalk — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 13:00:48 -0800

In related news, straight outta Toledo, Ohio: Surgeon uses scalpel to open eyelids Super Glued shut in fraternity "prank."

By: internook

internook — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 13:42:53 -0800

I once shaved with a hose at a campground only to find out later that this was the water source the RVs used to flush their portable tiolets out. I guess the stick the tube all down in there to get in the cracks and crevices- this is a good way to get hep or AIDs. Luckily, I got neither. The sign there said, "Water not safe for consumption", but said nothing about shaving with it. I take full responsibility for that one...

By: m@

m@ — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 13:49:00 -0800

My story pales by comparison--I brushed my teeth with Brill Cream. Well, started to. A little dab'll [make you] spew, ya!

By: xena

xena — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:06:09 -0800

Uncle Fes: I'd love to know how the conversation with your neighbor got on that topic. Um... on second thought - maybe not.

By: willnot

willnot — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:36:52 -0800

That's nothing. This friend of this cousin of mine once came back from the Bahamas with some truly disgusting photos having to do with a toothbrush and the hotel cleaning staff, and ...what?...Oh, never mind then. Carry on.

By: UncleFes

UncleFes — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:41:02 -0800

I'd love to know how the conversation with your neighbor got on that topic. Guy came in to the emergency room with a light bulb up his butt. He told my neighbor he was changing the bulb naked and he slipped off the chair and it "just went up there." Har dee har. As for me, I'm strictly "exit only."

By: UncleFes

UncleFes — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:44:22 -0800

how the conversation with your neighbor got on that topic. Ah! Well, I've a keen interest in medical foofaraw, and with her being a nurse, I was an all-too-willing ear...

By: Tubes

Tubes — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 15:21:37 -0800

From the glue story: "Minutes later, the pair were flown by helicopter to the Nassau University Medical Center, where emergency room staff washed out the girl's eye with two liters of saline solution." Flown by helicopter to the hospital for an eyewash? Holy smokes. Next time I have bad gas I'm taking a helicopter to the hospital for some Pepto.

By: Sinner

Sinner — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 16:34:42 -0800

When I was six or so and had an ear infection, my dad mistook Kwell lice shampoo for my medicine. Only difference was the enormous skull and crossbones on the Kwell bottle. Thanks, Pop. Upside is that on the way to the hospital, when my mom offered me "anything" not to fall asleep, I went for the gusto and asked for $10,000. She said OK. Downside is she's a better negotiator than me, and the next day, she made me settle for a toy truck. Thanks, Mom.

By: xena

xena — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 16:47:28 -0800

I heard on TV this morning that the kid worked the guilt trip on her mom and got a promise of a puppy. She got off cheap.

By: demannu

demannu — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 17:18:32 -0800

After reading all of these posts, and especailly the last one, I would think the only thing the girl would have made her mom promise is "Please don't ever do that again!"

By: hitsman

hitsman — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 18:37:34 -0800

Greener, your headline was misleading. According to the article, her eyes were never actually glued shut. Let's try to keep the sensationalism down to a minimum here. :)

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 19:08:16 -0800

"Since when does KY Jelly come in Caulk-Gun tubes?" Well, you kind of hafta special-order that way, I hear. Not that I would know. No sir! All lubricants at the Davis household are, uh, produced naturally. Or something. Just skip this post.

By: matty

matty — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 19:43:19 -0800

OK, I admit it... once when I was a kid I put some de-waxing eardrops in my eyes cause I wasn't paying attention to what I was grabbing out of the medicine cabinet. I thought it was Visine. I told the paramedics that came to the house that the box LOOKED like 'Skinny and Sweet'!

By: jedro

jedro — Sat, 05 Jan 2002 09:24:36 -0800

On a related note, does anybody remember the ER Watch database? You could search for emergency room cases based on the injured body part and the object that caused the injury. It's no longer at its old address, but does anybody know if it's still around?

By: Nauip

Nauip — Mon, 07 Jan 2002 13:22:51 -0800

more fun with strange things lost in strange places.