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The one time I didn’t wear my freakin glasses! Those things have amazing aim. Right in the eye with a good amount of juice. ;Blackeye
Ripped of my gloves and ran for the sink where I flushed my eye out by hand with tap water.
Was experiencing some mild stinging and eye lid twitching. Stinging could have been from the tap water and the twitching could have been from stress? I was trying not to panic at this point. ;Nailbiting
Ended up in Emerg where everyone thought I was a weirdo. Try explaining being shot in the eye by a palythoa zoanthid that could possibly have unknown levels of palytoxin to a bunch of people who have NO idea what I was talking about.
Got in after a very short wait and luckily the doctor on knew a bunch about wilderness toxins, so I think he may have had some fun researching while I flushed my eye with saline for 10 minutes. That was after having my eye frozen and dye dropped looking for damage.
Was told of a rat study where they dropped palytoxin in the eyes of poor rats resulted in sick rats but none died, which was comforting. The rats showed symptoms 4 hours after being introduced to the toxins.
Was given a Ekg before leaving (was there 2 1/2 hours by this point) and told I can wait or go home and call an ambulance if there was even a hint of flu like symptoms.
Was entered into a medical journal as no other cases were in there.
Today is the 2nd day and my eye is slightly bloodshot, a little irritated and there is one really red spot on my eye. So lucky!
Moral of the story- ALWAYS wear your glasses. I was trying to rush a quick frag and am super thankful it wasn’t worse than it was. Angry Paly was a Mohawk Paly.
Ripped of my gloves and ran for the sink where I flushed my eye out by hand with tap water.
Was experiencing some mild stinging and eye lid twitching. Stinging could have been from the tap water and the twitching could have been from stress? I was trying not to panic at this point. ;Nailbiting
Ended up in Emerg where everyone thought I was a weirdo. Try explaining being shot in the eye by a palythoa zoanthid that could possibly have unknown levels of palytoxin to a bunch of people who have NO idea what I was talking about.
Got in after a very short wait and luckily the doctor on knew a bunch about wilderness toxins, so I think he may have had some fun researching while I flushed my eye with saline for 10 minutes. That was after having my eye frozen and dye dropped looking for damage.
Was told of a rat study where they dropped palytoxin in the eyes of poor rats resulted in sick rats but none died, which was comforting. The rats showed symptoms 4 hours after being introduced to the toxins.
Was given a Ekg before leaving (was there 2 1/2 hours by this point) and told I can wait or go home and call an ambulance if there was even a hint of flu like symptoms.
Was entered into a medical journal as no other cases were in there.
Today is the 2nd day and my eye is slightly bloodshot, a little irritated and there is one really red spot on my eye. So lucky!
Moral of the story- ALWAYS wear your glasses. I was trying to rush a quick frag and am super thankful it wasn’t worse than it was. Angry Paly was a Mohawk Paly.