And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
When moving about large sheets of paper you kind of "crack the whip" with the paper to get air under it, then, sort of coast on the wave of air underneath it to it's eventual destination, say, on the next table. Kinda hard to explain, hard to learn at first. If you've ever installed cloth sheets on a bed you have some idea of what I am saying.
Had that once. I was trying to install one of those stupid spring hose clips on a heater hose. It got loose and hit my right glasses lens and shot glass into my eye. The doctor put this stuff in there but it seems that I'd washed it all out. Remember glass glasses?
Third grade: Out with chicken pox for however long and when I was ready to return my mom held out an envelope containing a document which I cleverly snatched from her hand like Kwai Chang Caine, except for on the follow through I dragged the envelope edge across my cornea. Spent the morning with some doctor sticking yellow dye in my right eye and the next several days looking like a pox marked pirate. If I remember right they used a die applicator that seemed like a strip of paper, almost like a cheap twist-tie, which is exactly what an eight year old wants poked into an injured eye.
It's fluorescein dye, applied as described above with a small slip of paper, and viewed under a Woods (UV) lamp. Any place you've scratched the outer surface, the dye pools up. No pools, no injury. We use it in the ED nearly every day for spotting foreign bodies in the eye and diagnosing corneal abrasions. It washes out easily.
They are also using a black light to get that effect.
ReplyDeleteOUCH!!!
ReplyDeleteHow, I wonder.
ReplyDeleteI papercut my eyelid once, handling large sheets (2"x36") of drafting mylar.
ReplyDeleteYes, it hurt like 4 mfr's.
When moving about large sheets of paper you kind of "crack the whip" with the paper to get air under it, then, sort of coast on the wave of air underneath it to it's eventual destination, say, on the next table. Kinda hard to explain, hard to learn at first. If you've ever installed cloth sheets on a bed you have some idea of what I am saying.
ReplyDeleteHad that once. I was trying to install one of those stupid spring hose clips on a heater hose. It got loose and hit my right glasses lens and shot glass into my eye. The doctor put this stuff in there but it seems that I'd washed it all out.
ReplyDeleteRemember glass glasses?
Third grade: Out with chicken pox for however long and when I was ready to return my mom held out an envelope containing a document which I cleverly snatched from her hand like Kwai Chang Caine, except for on the follow through I dragged the envelope edge across my cornea. Spent the morning with some doctor sticking yellow dye in my right eye and the next several days looking like a pox marked pirate. If I remember right they used a die applicator that seemed like a strip of paper, almost like a cheap twist-tie, which is exactly what an eight year old wants poked into an injured eye.
ReplyDeleteJust reread, that should say 24" x 36", D size mylar.
ReplyDeleteThey also do it if you get a splinter of wood embedded in your eyelid. I know firsthand.
ReplyDeleteFew things are as painful as a scratched cornea. You simply CANNOT keep te eye open. Even closed it is quite painful.
ReplyDeleteIt's fluorescein dye, applied as described above with a small slip of paper, and viewed under a Woods (UV) lamp. Any place you've scratched the outer surface, the dye pools up. No pools, no injury. We use it in the ED nearly every day for spotting foreign bodies in the eye and diagnosing corneal abrasions. It washes out easily.
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