Tony Shelton is in the Hospital Guys, How about a prayer for Tony & SHelly
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Lightning Gene
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Hope your getting better Tony...........quit Slacking and get back to work soon....Lol
Art Oliveri
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Get well Tony
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Tony Shelton
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Dirt Fighter
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Sorry to hear this....
Get well Tony !!!
Get well Tony !!!
Rance
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Can't believe I missed this thread. Damn Tony, That's some serious stuff. I hope you............ Not going to even speak it. Prayers coming your way for total healing in the eye. Hope others read this and realize we all need to be using our PPE 100% of the time! Keep us updated on progress.
Tony Shelton
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The good news is it will heal. The bad news is it may take a few months. Psychologically the pain is rough. I have to go in for treatment daily for a while. PH was back to 8 this morning and this is what it looked like.
I use Ppe when applying. I just didn't think I needed it taking apart a dried up sprayer. Never assumed it is all dried up. This was a direct application of hot mix in that is applied at a 5 to one ratio.
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Lightning Gene
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The good news is it will heal. .....Glad to hear it will get better.... Saftey tip I heard years ago...." It only takes a few seconds to change the rest of your life" Think Safe !
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Glad it wasn't as bad as it could have been! Wishing a speedy recovery for you!
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pressurepros210
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That looks painfull. Get well tony!
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Tony I know you feel like Crap, Check in with us Brother
Tony Shelton
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Well, it's been six days and I'm finally able to sit at a computer for a few minutes at a time. Still can't see out of it, but it is getting better.
Thank God I have guys who can take care of everything while I am down. This could have been a financial tragedy a few years ago, but now it's not too bad. I have two meetings in Denver on Thursday with one of the contractors who is doing Sonitx work and with a group that wants to promote our services nationwide. I hope I am able to fly by then. I have to be at both those meetings personally.
Here are some side issues to think about before any of you guys do anything with sodium hydroxide without eye protection, even if you think it is inert or dried up.
1) This isn't like an acid burn. It continues to eat, even after it's been rinsed. Three hours in the emergency room, an hour to an hour and a half every morning at the hospital and a bottle or two of eye rinse everyday the rest of the day at home and my PH level was still 7.5 on Friday afternoon. Everyday they would get it down to 7 then we go back the next morning and it is 8+ again. Still eating.
The rinsing is horrible. Imagine having the feeling of a softball wrapped in sandpaper in your eye socket. If you keep it still enough and don't move it the pain is tolerable for a while. Then, it's time to rinse again, starting the pain all over again. But you have to keep rinsing. For days. Otherwise, if it eats through to the cornea you are in for possible permanent vision loss.
2) The emotional toll. Pain pills are a must. I don't know how anyone could bear the rinsing without it. The Doctor will put numbing drops in while they are flushing, but you are only allowed so many per day and they will not let you take it home. Your only option is pain pills.
They take an emotional toll that is hard to describe. I wake up with night terrors every night. The pain pills have a little bit of a stimulant of some sort in them that takes away the pain, but makes you wake up suddenly in a state of panic. One night I woke up at 1am, jumped out of bed in confusion and fear compounded by the lack of vision in the one eye and spent over 4 hours in a full blown panic attack. Nothing helped. I tried pacing throughout the house, jogging in place, turning all the lights on in the house and washing down frequently with a cold wash rag. Other nights have been one to three hours of that, but that one night was the worst. I was afraid to go outside. I felt if I could walk a few blocks it might help, but the wind was blowing and I was afraid of getting something in my eye. I also felt very vulnerable with the limited eyesight and was afraid that walking around at night might result in getting robbed and beaten or even worse, detained by some cop and handcuffed which would have really been bad since moving around was my only form of relief.
On the bad nights the only way I have been able to get to sleep was to turn all the lights on and try to lie still on the couch while listening to the bible on audio till I fell asleep or the feelings of terror dissipated.
Three times I've gotten in the passenger side of the car to go somewhere and had to have Shelly turn around and bring me back home before we even got off the block due to the felling of being trapped in the car. I could only imagine how these types of feelings would have been quadrupled if I had lost sight in both eyes.
3) The physical toll. I'm sure many of us can remember things in our lives that were so traumatic our entire physical systems were thrown out of whack. Boot camp was traumatic. I remember my system was so messed up from the physical and mental trauma that I was unable to have a bowel movement for 3 - 4 days. Well, this is much work. So far it's been six days. The doctor has told me to take medicine to prepare for the eventual birth that is imminent. This is exacerbated by the pain medication. So if you hear a scream in Florida or some other east coast state sometime in the next 48 hours, you will know that my digestive system has finally overcome the trauma and is trying to return to normal.
I've got sores all inside my mouth from biting areas of my mouth to offset the eye pain.
There is a hole eaten inside my eyelid that scrapes across the sandpaper of my eyeball everytime I look for something with my good eye, involuntarily moving the bad one.
Eye drops that dilate my eye help with the soreness of the muscles around my eye, but they open the pupil up so much that even light from through my eyelid hurts.
It is getting better though. At first I could see nothing but light all over. Now I can make out the faint outline of this computer screen.
I am only taking pain meds when I absolutely can't take it any more and quit taking any after 7 pm no matter what. Last night I only work up once for an hour and just laid in bed and prayed about it till I could get back to sleep.
I am not only blessed that I've got guys who can keep my business running, but I am also blessed that I have the best wife in the world who can take care of me 24 hours a day. She keeps me on track with the regimen of medications I have to take and holds my hand in silence at other times and prays with me at others. I can't thank God enough for her.
I know there are lots of guys who have gone through this. I'm sure there are many who have gone through worse situations than this. I'm only writing this so that you all know what a toll something that happens in less than a split second can take on your life. In this case I got a heavy dose of super hot caustic from a hose on the mix tank before it was mixed. It was not a spray, but a full blown eye filling amount that saturated the eye socket. Even though I was at the sink power rinsing it within 30 seconds, so far it has resulted in almost a week of hell on earth. It's just not worth failing to use eye protection every time.
Thank you guys for all your prayers, calls, texts and contact with Shelly. It really means a lot. Something happened to my password on my phone so I can't respond to facebook on my phone to thank everyone for all the prayers there and this is about all I can take on the computer for today.
Thank you guys so much for everything.
Hopefully I'll be back soon when all of this is behind me.
Thank God I have guys who can take care of everything while I am down. This could have been a financial tragedy a few years ago, but now it's not too bad. I have two meetings in Denver on Thursday with one of the contractors who is doing Sonitx work and with a group that wants to promote our services nationwide. I hope I am able to fly by then. I have to be at both those meetings personally.
Here are some side issues to think about before any of you guys do anything with sodium hydroxide without eye protection, even if you think it is inert or dried up.
1) This isn't like an acid burn. It continues to eat, even after it's been rinsed. Three hours in the emergency room, an hour to an hour and a half every morning at the hospital and a bottle or two of eye rinse everyday the rest of the day at home and my PH level was still 7.5 on Friday afternoon. Everyday they would get it down to 7 then we go back the next morning and it is 8+ again. Still eating.
The rinsing is horrible. Imagine having the feeling of a softball wrapped in sandpaper in your eye socket. If you keep it still enough and don't move it the pain is tolerable for a while. Then, it's time to rinse again, starting the pain all over again. But you have to keep rinsing. For days. Otherwise, if it eats through to the cornea you are in for possible permanent vision loss.
2) The emotional toll. Pain pills are a must. I don't know how anyone could bear the rinsing without it. The Doctor will put numbing drops in while they are flushing, but you are only allowed so many per day and they will not let you take it home. Your only option is pain pills.
They take an emotional toll that is hard to describe. I wake up with night terrors every night. The pain pills have a little bit of a stimulant of some sort in them that takes away the pain, but makes you wake up suddenly in a state of panic. One night I woke up at 1am, jumped out of bed in confusion and fear compounded by the lack of vision in the one eye and spent over 4 hours in a full blown panic attack. Nothing helped. I tried pacing throughout the house, jogging in place, turning all the lights on in the house and washing down frequently with a cold wash rag. Other nights have been one to three hours of that, but that one night was the worst. I was afraid to go outside. I felt if I could walk a few blocks it might help, but the wind was blowing and I was afraid of getting something in my eye. I also felt very vulnerable with the limited eyesight and was afraid that walking around at night might result in getting robbed and beaten or even worse, detained by some cop and handcuffed which would have really been bad since moving around was my only form of relief.
On the bad nights the only way I have been able to get to sleep was to turn all the lights on and try to lie still on the couch while listening to the bible on audio till I fell asleep or the feelings of terror dissipated.
Three times I've gotten in the passenger side of the car to go somewhere and had to have Shelly turn around and bring me back home before we even got off the block due to the felling of being trapped in the car. I could only imagine how these types of feelings would have been quadrupled if I had lost sight in both eyes.
3) The physical toll. I'm sure many of us can remember things in our lives that were so traumatic our entire physical systems were thrown out of whack. Boot camp was traumatic. I remember my system was so messed up from the physical and mental trauma that I was unable to have a bowel movement for 3 - 4 days. Well, this is much work. So far it's been six days. The doctor has told me to take medicine to prepare for the eventual birth that is imminent. This is exacerbated by the pain medication. So if you hear a scream in Florida or some other east coast state sometime in the next 48 hours, you will know that my digestive system has finally overcome the trauma and is trying to return to normal.
I've got sores all inside my mouth from biting areas of my mouth to offset the eye pain.
There is a hole eaten inside my eyelid that scrapes across the sandpaper of my eyeball everytime I look for something with my good eye, involuntarily moving the bad one.
Eye drops that dilate my eye help with the soreness of the muscles around my eye, but they open the pupil up so much that even light from through my eyelid hurts.
It is getting better though. At first I could see nothing but light all over. Now I can make out the faint outline of this computer screen.
I am only taking pain meds when I absolutely can't take it any more and quit taking any after 7 pm no matter what. Last night I only work up once for an hour and just laid in bed and prayed about it till I could get back to sleep.
I am not only blessed that I've got guys who can keep my business running, but I am also blessed that I have the best wife in the world who can take care of me 24 hours a day. She keeps me on track with the regimen of medications I have to take and holds my hand in silence at other times and prays with me at others. I can't thank God enough for her.
I know there are lots of guys who have gone through this. I'm sure there are many who have gone through worse situations than this. I'm only writing this so that you all know what a toll something that happens in less than a split second can take on your life. In this case I got a heavy dose of super hot caustic from a hose on the mix tank before it was mixed. It was not a spray, but a full blown eye filling amount that saturated the eye socket. Even though I was at the sink power rinsing it within 30 seconds, so far it has resulted in almost a week of hell on earth. It's just not worth failing to use eye protection every time.
Thank you guys for all your prayers, calls, texts and contact with Shelly. It really means a lot. Something happened to my password on my phone so I can't respond to facebook on my phone to thank everyone for all the prayers there and this is about all I can take on the computer for today.
Thank you guys so much for everything.
Hopefully I'll be back soon when all of this is behind me.
