Well, i have experienced my first and (hopefully)last ride in an ambulance! i was working on a job and while i was opening the lid on one of my tanker trucks it blew up on me! if i wasn't holding on to the ladder as tightly as i was, it would have knocked me clear to the fence (40 ft away). As it was, i was completely covered in Slurry seal and the initial blast hit me square in the face. i couldn't see and passersby who saw it thought i was covered in burning tar! (luckily the material is ambient temperature). the paramedics were immediately called and i was hosed down with a water hose. all of the efforts of people with eye wash, could not get the debris out of my eye, the paramedics said i had to go to the hospital so they could numb my eye and they would have nesssisary equipment to clean the debris out of my eyes. (the nessisary equipment turned out to be q-tips, and something called morgan-lenses.) the nurses and doctor had never seen anything like my eyes. they see some terrible stuff in the emergencie room, but they said they would be talking about all the crazy stuff and amounts of stuff they pulled out of my eyes. i was there for 3 hours then they made me see an opthamologist for expert opinion on further treatment. they put a die in my eyes that makes the scratches show better under their binodular thingies. they said my cornea looked like a scratched cd that has been in the glove box for a year or so. any ways the prognostic for my vision returning to complete normalness is excellent. so i thank my lucky stars.
