Jon Anderson wrote:

Got a small chip in my eye and was about to head upstairs to remove it
and just happened to notice an old dental mirror on the bench.
This is a concave mirror that magnifies, has a focal distance of approx
2". Held this up to my eye in an area with decent ambient light, and
viola, it was a total piece of cake to gently swipe the chip out with a
Q-tip. This beats the hell out of leaning over the sink and trying to
shine a flashlight in the affected eye while trying to find and remove
the particle. Don't know if I'd want to try to pull an imbedded
particle, but for something just sitting on the eye, this makes it
really really easy. Everyone working with metal or wood ought to have
one of these handy.

And for the safety nannies, yes, I was wearing safety glasses...

Jon
i never wore safety glasses until the cut off wheel on a dremel tool
broke and went into the eye and left 12 pieces of it in one eye.. luck
me the did not go though the eye, just the outside layer..... went to
emergency room.. doctor there could not do too much...(saturday evening)
told me to call up an eye doctor and go to his offic in the morning..
i went home and call up this eye doctor that he gave me his bus. card..
the doctor says: who told you to meet in the office in the morning.. i
tell him the emergency room doctor.. he says OK, see you there at 9:00
am... i go there and he pulls out the stuff and puts some med. on it
tells me to come back in about one week... went to pay him.. no, pay the
girls who work the office when you come back.. i dont know what to do
with the payments... that was 25 yrs. ago.. i dont do nothing now
without eye protection... dont car what kind of idiot i look like with
the glasses on....