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May 16, 2003 8:12 AM

Matthew's Eye has been healing ever since he got a nasty shot from someone. His site shows the process through a series of photos, one taken per day.
posted by dum2007 (18 comments total)

uhm err uh ....
posted by xmutex at 8:28 AM on May 16, 2003

This really should be sent to showmeyourwound.com.
posted by agregoli at 8:36 AM on May 16, 2003

How's the other guy look?
posted by alumshubby at 8:37 AM on May 16, 2003

Third day is always the worst.
posted by archimago at 8:41 AM on May 16, 2003

heh! stuff like this is sort of compelling. there is a guy who has daily pics of his family going back over years. you can watch the kids grow while the parents age. it's depressing! and the other day i saw 'time lapse' pages a woman made of her recluse spider bite healing. (i hope to god i never meet a recluse spider after seeing that!) i wish i had done this with my tracker. over 2 years and 50,000 miles later, it looks radically different. the molding is defenestrated. there are numerous dents, dings and scrapes. i love that damn thing!
posted by quonsar at 8:47 AM on May 16, 2003

Great post.
posted by plep at 8:59 AM on May 16, 2003

That punk won't fuck with me again.
posted by xmutex at 9:09 AM on May 16, 2003

I always enjoy this kind of project more when it's executed with control: the same framing of the eye with the same lighting and exposure every time. Something you could string together and animate.
posted by scarabic at 9:20 AM on May 16, 2003

I think this is the spider-bite site. Maybe not safe for the squeamish.
posted by davidmsc at 9:23 AM on May 16, 2003

Reminds me of these oldies but goodies.
posted by duckstab at 9:36 AM on May 16, 2003

The blood in the eye doesn't seem to be going away. He should have that (ahem) looked at.
posted by kfury at 10:20 AM on May 16, 2003

Thanks alot, davidmsc. I may never go outdoors again. (But if I do I'll be carrying a stun gun and nitro patches.)
posted by Tubes at 10:59 AM on May 16, 2003

I see brown recluse spiders on an almost-daily basis. If I am up late at night I sometimes wander around with a flashlight and some toilet paper and flush any that I find. They tend to come out after dark and I like to keep them thinned out. I have been trying to eliminate areas that bugs and spiders can get into the house ever since I got up one morning and found a dead recluse underneath my shoulder. I had on a thick t-shirt, thank the heavens. So no bite.
posted by bargle at 1:12 PM on May 16, 2003

Holy moley, that BRS page is the scariest thing I have seen in a long time. I realized about 2/3rd of the way through that my knuckles were white from gripping the arm of the chair.
posted by Hildago at 5:15 PM on May 16, 2003

The doctor apparently told him the blood won't leave his eye for a month or two.. the result: rose tinted vision!
posted by dum2007 at 11:08 PM on May 16, 2003

Coming Soon: Matthew's Nuts.
posted by chrid at 7:49 AM on May 17, 2003

I had a staph infection that almost cost me my hand that was almost bad as those BRS bites, but without the widespread necrosis.

If I ever suspect I've been bitten, I'm printing out the stun-gun and nitro protocols and taking 'em with me to the ER. If the physician refuses to listen, I'm walking out & going to the next ER I can find.
posted by alumshubby at 10:49 AM on May 18, 2003

Is it just me or is his eye showing Lone Star pride on the 14th?
posted by Pollomacho at 8:19 AM on May 19, 2003