K wrote:
Bob Hobden writes
A week and a half ago I walked into our small greenhouse, turned around, and
straight into our tall Oleander, a leaf of which went up inside my glasses
and stabbed me in the eye.
To cut a very long story short after two days it got bad such that it was
very light sensitive and painful and the "Walk in Centre" (not local!) I
went to said I had scratched the cornea. Turns out their treatment was
incorrect because of the depth of the cut and I now have had to see a local
eye surgeon three times this week because it has ulcerated. Three lots of
eye drops to take. Only now am I able to look at a PC screen or any light
although my vision is still blurred in the right eye. Still can't drive.

My Surgeon says if you get something like that in your eye go to Hospital
ASAP for a checkup (and try to see an eye surgeon) don't wait for it to get
worse, with eyes it's better safe that sorry!

Bob, very sorry to hear that. By coincidence, my husband did the same
last weekend. Though not as bad as yours, it's still a severe infection,
and we've had 4 hospital visits since last Monday. I reiterate your
advice, don't 'wait and see', get straight to the hospital. Between
appointments, his eye seemed to be getting worse, so he went back
straight away, and it was most certainly the right thing to do, as they
immediately upped him to hourly doses of a stronger antibiotic.

And let's all promise one another that we will no longer leave a garden
cane standing without a protective ball thing on top -- my grandfather
gave himself a nasty eye injury that way. The specs thing's a devil,
too: a jab in the eyeball helped me to retrain myself always to shut my
eyes when putting them on. Speedy recovery, Bob.

--
Mike.