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Why we protect our eyes
I came across this clip yesterday and it reminded me what a risk I take when I fail to wear eye protection in low light conditions. I am sure that I am not alone in being so lapse about such an important piece of safety and would share this with you.
Warning the content is a little gory [url=http://bjo.bmjjournals.com/content/vol87/issue9/images/data/DC1/chen_final.mov:ab7c0]http://bjo.bmjjournals.com/content/vol87/issue9/images/data/DC1/chen_final.mov[/url:ab7c0]
Extract from the British Medical Journal
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JME
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The link gave me ACII characters.
Is there another way to get to it.
Rick
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I'll be going this afternoon to get a spare pair of glasses.
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ALWAYS wear eye protection. A customer at the shop I used to work for had a mishap that became very serious. He was just standing out on a boat dock, casting a little popper at some bluegill. Somehow the hook managed to puncture his eyeball, and release the fluid and all that. He had to go to the doctor twice a day for over three weeks so they could maintain the gas bubble they put in his eye so it would retain its normal shape. The doctor told him that if they hadn't applied ice to the wound as quickly as he had, he probably would have lost the eye.
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My worst moment Fly Fishing - trying to help a young teenage boy get emergency help for the fly in his eye.
Don't even think about fishing near me without eye protection - you will get the whole story and more!
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Bill
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Excellent video, thanks!
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aka Cap'n Yid.
Stev Lenon, 91B20'68-'69
When the dawn came up like thunder
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I teach children fly casting and glasses are a required All flies have pinched barbs I ask for a volunteer to demonstrate hook removal--no one comes forward so I resort to the orange.
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Bill
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Sorry Rick Z, it is the only link I have.
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JME
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A couple years ago the TU calendar had a picture of a small child on the back of a fly fisher. Neither had glasses. I went balistic. I can remove hooks from flesh, but an eye would freak me out. I think it was Oakly that had a print campaign a couple years back with a royal wolf imbedded in an eye. All the ad said was wear eye protection. It stuck with me since.
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Rick Z
On a PC right+click and choose Save Target as. Then run the .MOV file from your Hard Drive. You probably don't have the latest Quicktime plug-in installed. You can get that from the Apple Website.
Don
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Continually harp on my kids about wearing eye protection I think they both got the point {pun intended} after watching the clip.
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If sense is common why don't more people have it?
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I only could watch about Half, I will ware my Glasses all the time.
JME Excellent video, Thanks!
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Thank god I have to wear prescription glasses...I will be making sure that when i start the kiddies fly fishing that they are well equipped...
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"Wish ya great fishing"
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I use wear-over sunglasses when fishing, that cover my regular glasses. They have side protectors to give your eyes even more protection, than normal glasses.
I have a friend, who lost sight in one eye, during a shooting accident while hunting, when he was young. He is now a Carpenter, and one day on the work site, he was roofing a house, when part of nail he was hammering, broke off the nail, and hit his good eye.
He was lucky that the doctors were able to remove the nail fragment from his eye, without too much damage. I gave him a very stern lecture, using some choice words (that would make a sailor blush), about how stupid he was for not using eye protection. His wife was even more flowerful in her use of choice of words. Needless to say, that he now wears eye protection at all times, on and off the job site.
Parnelli
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OH....MY....GAWD!!!!!!! If that doesn't wake people up to the need for protection....
I'm still weak in the knees, and queezy, from watching!!
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Trouts don't live in ugly places
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We all wear eye protection on the river. We don't use many small flies, but a #6 Bomber can get just as stuck.
In low light, we switch to clear lenses (like safety glasses from the Mill, or Amber lenses on oversized shooting glasses (like the B&L from years ago).
JME, ... Thanks for the (graphic) eye opener.
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Christopher Chin
Jonquiere Quebec
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