Random thoughts

So this project is in the owner punch / State inspector punch stage. We have 90% of owner punch and 90% of State items that we know of complete. This is the time where days drag. State does there inspection and they go through their notes and we write all items down but they need a week plus to get us the final list and it never fails there are items on it that they never told us. But all that means I'm on the short road. Moved all my junk out of my apartment and cluttered up mama's house so there is something to do when I get home this weekend. I always tell the younger guys if you don't want to live on the road don't ever go on the road. Once you go they think you love it. Don't get me wrong I love my job/career but its not fun anymore if that makes sense. Got me three packages waiting for me to open when I get home so that's exciting.
 
So yesterday morning I was installing attic door springs. These attic access doors are 22”x30” some 36”. Anyway we have 7 of these onsite. These have to self latch and to do this you install 3-4 springs that are pretty strong. These doors are fire rated so they weigh a decent amount. I was on the last door and I installed one spring after fighting with it for a bit. I was trying to install the next spring and it was giving me a hard time. Typically if you close the door some you have a shorter distance to stretch it. I couldn’t get it so I then opened the door all the way and all of a sudden BAM! The spring I had on came loose and slammed into my left eye. I felt like I just got punched very hard. I stepped down off the ladder and slowly took my hand off my face expecting there to be blood but nothing. I opened my eye and it was just blur. I then went into a bathroom to look in the mirror to see the damage and my eye was just little red and a small scratch on my nose. Couldn’t see out of my left eye except light and dark. I drove myself to the urgent care and Dr looked and said she thought it would go away on its own but go to eye Dr. My safety director was already working on getting my wife to me to drive me home and get a eye Dr appt there. We went to eye Dr and they said I had a dislocated lense which needs surgery to fix. She couldn’t see the retina due to inflammation and blood made it cloudy I guess. This was now 530 Thursday evening. They got me an appt at the retina specialist this afternoon. Dr there said I need a new lense and some laser work around the retina to keep it from detaching in the future as it has some damage. The new lense will have to be attached directly to my eye since what typically holds it floating in place is damaged and can’t be repaired. The retina is working and he is pretty confident he can give me my vision back. Surgery is scheduled for May 5 as he wants my eye to recover from the trauma. Right now I don’t have much pain but I can only see shapes and some colors out of my left eye.

Take away is to wear safety glasses at all times except when sleeping. And never mess with these doors again. They have always been dangerous. This is the offending door but not the offending spring. Not sure what happened. Either I didn’t have the top fully seated or the end broke.

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abraves said:
So yesterday morning I was installing attic door springs. These attic access doors are 22”x30” some 36”. Anyway we have 7 of these onsite. These have to self latch and to do this you install 3-4 springs that are pretty strong. These doors are fire rated so they weigh a decent amount. I was on the last door and I installed one spring after fighting with it for a bit. I was trying to install the next spring and it was giving me a hard time. Typically if you close the door some you have a shorter distance to stretch it. I couldn’t get it so I then opened the door all the way and all of a sudden BAM! The spring I had on came loose and slammed into my left eye. I felt like I just got punched very hard. I stepped down off the ladder and slowly took my hand off my face expecting there to be blood but nothing. I opened my eye and it was just blur. I then went into a bathroom to look in the mirror to see the damage and my eye was just little red and a small scratch on my nose. Couldn’t see out of my left eye except light and dark. I drove myself to the urgent care and Dr looked and said she thought it would go away on its own but go to eye Dr. My safety director was already working on getting my wife to me to drive me home and get a eye Dr appt there. We went to eye Dr and they said I had a dislocated lense which needs surgery to fix. She couldn’t see the retina due to inflammation and blood made it cloudy I guess. This was now 530 Thursday evening. They got me an appt at the retina specialist this afternoon. Dr there said I need a new lense and some laser work around the retina to keep it from detaching in the future as it has some damage. The new lense will have to be attached directly to my eye since what typically holds it floating in place is damaged and can’t be repaired. The retina is working and he is pretty confident he can give me my vision back. Surgery is scheduled for May 5 as he wants my eye to recover from the trauma. Right now I don’t have much pain but I can only see shapes and some colors out of my left eye.

Take away is to wear safety glasses at all times except when sleeping. And never mess with these doors again. They have always been dangerous. This is the offending door but not the offending spring. Not sure what happened. Either I didn’t have the top fully seated or the end broke.

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Springs are instruments of the Devil at install and removal, perhaps equal to c-clips.
Smoke up for quick and complete recovery,
 
I was kicked in the eye when I was serving in the Marines. The kick was so perfect that it broke the Corina. The eye filled up with Blood and I could not see out of it for a couple days. They did not know if I would keep my eye. To this day I have a problem with things around my eyes. I did keep my eye and the vision mostly returned to normal.
 
Update on my eye injury.
Had surgery yesterday afternoon. Got home about 630 with patched eye. Surgery took an hour and it took me at least that long to wake up which is not unusual.

Just got back from post op appt. Vision is 20/40 which is much better than Dr figured it would be at this time. He said it will improve over the next few weeks or months. He said it’s not an exact science and we still don’t know the extent of the damage. Time will tell if the retina has any damage. Also he was able to stimulate the pupil and it has come down some. If it’s not working in 2-3 months he will go in and tighten the muscle to a fixed position. If that muscle is torn there is no fix. Have another appointment next Wednesday to get a stitch out of the cornea. At least I can see. It is itchy due to the stitches and very red and gross looking. I can return to light duty with no bending over, picking up more than 15 pounds and glasses outside as can’t have anything getting in it.

Y’all be careful out there.
 
abraves said:
Update on my eye injury.
Had surgery yesterday afternoon. Got home about 630 with patched eye. Surgery took an hour and it took me at least that long to wake up which is not unusual.

Just got back from post op appt. Vision is 20/40 which is much better than Dr figured it would be at this time. He said it will improve over the next few weeks or months. He said it’s not an exact science and we still don’t know the extent of the damage. Time will tell if the retina has any damage. Also he was able to stimulate the pupil and it has come down some. If it’s not working in 2-3 months he will go in and tighten the muscle to a fixed position. If that muscle is torn there is no fix. Have another appointment next Wednesday to get a stitch out of the cornea. At least I can see. It is itchy due to the stitches and very red and gross looking. I can return to light duty with no bending over, picking up more than 15 pounds and glasses outside as can’t have anything getting in it.

Y’all be careful out there.
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Well, that sounds cautiously promising. Still hoping for the best.
 
Ya know, sometimes it seems the main thing that people who do not like me dislike about me, is how much happier I am with my life these days than I was 20 years ago, since I finally found my way back to my King, my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ some years back.

And in that regard, I've come to think one of the most important lessons I have learned from nature, and I have learned a great many out in the wilds, was when I saw with my own eyes, and recognized, how the vines that produce the good fruits, just keep doing their thing.

Whilst simply not even caring about, or even taking notice of, the vines in their vicinity that are obnoxious, poisonous, and produce toxic fruit.

And in the end, the fruits of their labors are just that much sweeter, for simply having not cared about that which doesn't matter.

And this is why I spend more time out in God's gardens away from most people these days, than I spend in man's obsurd concrete jungles.

"And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect."
~Paul, Romans 12:2
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So today is a very special day for me.
Two years ago today I had emergency surgery that saved my life. On 5/22/24 my colon perforated from Ulcerative Colitis. Within hours I was having emergency surgery to remove my colon.
It has been a tough journey to this point. A journey that has changed my life forever and made me stronger in many ways. Thinking about it still chokes me up a little.
Im thankful for my life every day.
Live your life hard. There's no guarantees.
 
Its amazing what they can do medically now. 30 years ago I would probably be blind in one eye and you NoRest NoRest likely wouldn't have made it. I live with Follicular lymphoma which is a non hodgkins lymphoma that right now doesn't affect me that I know. They found it doing an endoscopy checking for something else and there it is just hanging out. My doc says we probably will have to deal with it but the longer I wait the more advanced medicine becomes. This was 9 years ago. I try to live life and take time with those I love because you never know.
 
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