Its a big helicopter!!!
Back in the day when I fitted windows and doors not your cheap uvpc sit but high end top quality stuff. I was working on the imperial wharf on Chelsea harbour on a new build on the top floor penthouse.

I had just fitted and cleaned the sliding patio doors and was starting to work on one of the side windows when I heard a WHAP WHAP WHAP in the distance downriver. Being opposite Battersea’s heliport offered me, as a bit of a plane spotter, plenty of opportunities to see Bell Jet Rangers, Robinson R4’s etc coming in but this was different, very different.
I looked down river and saw to my amazement a USAF HH53 pave low Super Jolly Green giant coming up river, this is big exotica in the helo world and a very rare bird to be seen over London. I stood transfixed as I came roaring up the Thames, I though ‘wow’ and ran through to the balcony to see this huge helo come in to land, the first time I had ever seen one in real life!

I ran and then..........I woke up on my back looking up at the unpainted ceiling wondering WTF had happened, I sat up, dazedly looked out and the helicopter had gone, I clearly had lost some time, had an egg sized lump on my brow and my glasses had broken, in my haste I had forgotten that the patio doors leading onto the balcony were shut and In my excitement clearly had forgotten they were there. I usually put a visible safety film across after cleaning but for some reason had neglected to do so.

The pain was bad but I couldn't see that well without my glasses and if I was to drive home I needed to repair them, luckily only the frame had snapped no damage to the lens. So I got the superglue out of the tool kit and put a large lump on the edge and pressed it together where the edge of the bit holding the lens in place meets the frame.

I brought it up close to have a look and see if it was setting, I let go to see if it had taken and it rebounded under pressure and it flicked a small lump of the glue into my right eye which immediately I closed my eyes and pressed together, I was still groggy from being knocked out and in hindsight pressing was not the right choice to make, but too late I had just glued my eyelid together and to my eyeball.

It started to sting and the hour it took to get to A&E was sore but bearable.
The only treatment to separate skin is to cut away, scrape or use a solvent, being actually on my eye the latter was not a option so cut and scrape they did, the pain was not so bad once the local anaesthetic started to work but the process was terrifying and the feeling of someone scraping your eyeball is something I would not like to repeat.

I still love helicopters but am far more careful in my viewing. And I wear contact lenses.
(nimrodihnio making gravy for one., Sat 31 Jul 2010, 1:43, 1 reply)

Being a blindo contact lens wearer
(in the eye that still works) with severe retinal, corneal and pressure problems I have had a lot of very unpleasant things done to my eyes over the years. But none quite as nasty sounding as that. Reading that made my eyes genuinely water ! Click.
(womanwhocanonlylivewithdogs, Sat 31 Jul 2010, 10:23, closed)