This is a brief description of a recent experience to remind people like me what happens when karma bites your butt.
I'd worked many years in the power industry. Even though an office worker, trips to manufacturing and test sites meant lectures and strict adherence to simple and basic safety rules. No open toed shoes, wear goggles, know where the emergency power shutoff is, stay in marked aisles, don't get under heavy bits, etc. Motivation was clear as injuries from flouting rules could be crippling, fatal, sometimes even embarassing.
Now I've retired and I'm my own safety officer. Of course I screwed up around the time covid was heating up. Just a little bit of grinding and using a cutoff wheel without goggles. I'd assumed my glasses would protect my eyes. They'd always done so. Nope. I suffered from a day of eye irritation before deciding to visit expensive professionals to remove bits of grit from one eye.
An emergency room person numbed my eye, poked around with a sharp thingie all the while saying to keep my focus still and unmoving or I'd have a worse injurie. She sounded irritated. Then to an opthamalogist for mopping up. More numbed eye, more sharp things and then a buffer; smooth out the rough spots? Better attitude though and more reassuring.
Anyway, no damage done, only a few days dealing with eye irritation and many dollars spent unneccesarily.
Regards,
P
