Damn!!!! I almost put my eye out (not kidding either).

[SeattleGirl]

I was downtown a bit ago, and it's raining kitties and puppies so I had my umbrella with me. I went into a store, so I folded the umbrella. When I walked out of the store (still under cover), I had my umbrella in my left hand. All of a sudden, the collapsible handle UN-COLLAPSED and smashed me dead in the left lens of my eyeglasses, and said lens smashed against my open left eye. YIKES!!!!

It was so sudden, and I was caught completely off guard, but at least I know now that my shatter-proof eyeglass lenses really ARE shatter-proof, thank The Maker. I won't be surprised if I end up with a black eye. My eye feels a little weird, but my vision seems to be okay. My eye socket hurts, as that's where the edge of the lens hit me.

That umbrella is definitely going to be retired (and it's not even that old). I never want that to happen again. :cry:

[miss_american_pie]

1. OMG

What a scare that must have been.

[SeattleGirl]

2. Definitely scary.

I'm just very thankful that the lens DIDN'T break.

[Bossy Monkey]

3. Sue. Or at least report 'em.

Apparently, we still have a Consumer Product Safety Commission in this country. http://www.cpsc.gov/ That is just unacceptable (the umbrella, not the CPSC)

[SOteric]

4. Kitties and puppies?

'Cause on my way home from work it was raining cats and dogs. And pigs and chickens and horses and cows.

Know where I can find an ark?

[SeattleGirl]

5. I was just trying to psychologically minimize the monsoons.

Didn't really work though. It damned WET out there! x(

[Haole Girl]

6. I don't mean to scare you, but if you see any change in vision...

...what-so-ever...you should go to the hospital emergency room. I've heard horror stories (I'll spare you) of eye injuries! I'm glad you appear to be ok...what a close one! Oh, and good move on throwing away that umbrella! :hi:

[SeattleGirl]

7. Oh, I will definitely go to the ER if I notice changes in vision.

So far, so good, though. :hi:

[barb162]

8. I'm glad to read you're okay. That sounds like a bad accident

and weird one. I had an accident with an umbrella too when I was very young. My mom was trying to close an umbrella in this horrible high wind. As she was doing it I was behind her and being pushed toward the umbrella handle and she didn't know it. My eye ended up there with that wind. I ended up with a bloody eyeball and the doc said if it had been just a few zillionths of an inch to the left I would have been blinded. I remember wearing a patch for a while and taking lots of eyedrops

[SeattleGirl]

9. Wow, you were very fortunate!

My upper cheekbone and the upper part of my eyesocket are starting to hurt more, and I'm sure they will turn black and blue, as I bruise rather easily.

[barb162]

10. maybe put a coldpack on it ?

If you have any swelling or you even think something might be wrong with the muscles around the eye or the soft tissue, I know you'll go to the ER. It sounds though as if you injured everything but the actual eyeball, which is good. That whole area of the face is so delicate.

[SeattleGirl]

13. Doing that very thing right now.

Keep any swelling at a minimum.

[Zomby Woof]

11. Damn!

:hug:

Now that you're okay, allow me to say that real Seattleites don't use umbrellas. Now you know why! :-(

[SeattleGirl]

15. You'd think I'd know that by now!

But for sure I won't be using THAT umbrella any mor!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. My dear SeattleGirl!

How very scary for you!

I definitely think an icepack is a good idea.......

Hope you didn't sustain any real damage, sweetie......:scared:

:loveya: :hug: :loveya:

[SeattleGirl]

16. Thanks Peggy. I think the eye itself is okay. It's a little red,

but my vision doesn't seem to have been affected. :loveya: :hug: :loveya:

[petronius]

14. Guess I won't get you this

http://www.jipemania.com.nyud.net:8090/coke/natal/1940/1940-Daisy-RED-RYDER-BB-GUN.jpg

for Christmas, after all...

[SeattleGirl]

17. ROFL!!! "You'll put your eye out!"

Once the stars quit circling my head and I realized my eyeball wasn't laying on the pavement, that's the very first thing I thought of! :rofl:

[petronius]

20. Those few seconds after a blow to the head when you're squinting around

looking for your eyeball are pretty damn scary. There're few feelings better than finding out that the eyeball is still in your face, after all...

Glad your glasses lived up to their advertisement!

[texanwitch]

18. I hope you eye will be all right.

That is a scary thing to happen, I wear glasses also.:hug:

[SeattleGirl]

19. I'm sure it will be.

There isn't even a scratch on the lens, so now I've VERY glad I paid extra for what I got.

[texanwitch]

21. What kind of lens are you wearing.

I think we may be wearing the same kind. My lens are tough, I am hard on glasses.

[SeattleGirl]

23. I can't remember the details now, but they are some of the

newer ones. Shatter-proof and extra strong, though very light-weight.

[texanwitch]

25. We sure do, I just got a new pair.

I would never wear glass lenses.

[SeattleGirl]

26. Me either. I shudder to think what would have happened with

breakable lenses (or contacts, which I occasionally wear). :scared:

[Whoa_Nelly]

22. Omigosh, SG!

Cool cloth, no ice for eye area injury...ice can damage eye.

Found out glasses were shatteproof back in the '70s. Was busy, busy, busy cleaning my little place, and bent over to get something not paying attention to broom handle that was sticking up leaning against the couch. Hit dead on left eye...frames and plastic lenses saved me.


Am sooooo glad you had your glasses on! So sorry you got hurt... :hug:

[SeattleGirl]

24. Thank goodness for eyeglasses, huh?

Thank you, Nelly. :hug: