not too smart thread
04-01-2003 | 09:01 AM
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not too smart thread
Inspired by Itweintz's CD-ROM cup holder story I'd like to share one of my own...
A few years ago I was paged by the emergency room at 2AM - it seems that a lady came in with a comlaint of superglue in her eye.
I told them to flush the eye out with normal saline (a type of solution) then drove to the hospital to meet the patient.
It turned out that this lady has a fondness for acrylic nail which she glues on at home. Unfortunately, she also uses contact lens and her habit is to keep the superglue (for the nail) and the moisturizing drop (for the contact lens) bottles next to each other. On this particular night she reached for the wrong bottle to moisturize her eye....
After getting that part of the story I asked her what she did next. The correct thing to do is to flush the eye out with water because it remove harmful chemicals from the eye.
Lady: Oh I flushed my eye out with water.
Me: Oh good, that's exactly the thing to do.
Lady: I know. Because when this happened last year the doctor flushed my eye out with water so I remembered what to do.
Me: Hmm, you put superglue in your eye onced before?
Lady: Yes, last year the same thing happened to me.
A few years ago I was paged by the emergency room at 2AM - it seems that a lady came in with a comlaint of superglue in her eye.
I told them to flush the eye out with normal saline (a type of solution) then drove to the hospital to meet the patient.
It turned out that this lady has a fondness for acrylic nail which she glues on at home. Unfortunately, she also uses contact lens and her habit is to keep the superglue (for the nail) and the moisturizing drop (for the contact lens) bottles next to each other. On this particular night she reached for the wrong bottle to moisturize her eye....
After getting that part of the story I asked her what she did next. The correct thing to do is to flush the eye out with water because it remove harmful chemicals from the eye.
Lady: Oh I flushed my eye out with water.
Me: Oh good, that's exactly the thing to do.
Lady: I know. Because when this happened last year the doctor flushed my eye out with water so I remembered what to do.
Me: Hmm, you put superglue in your eye onced before?
Lady: Yes, last year the same thing happened to me.
