hardcorehunter

Take care and get better.

mauser06

wow man...that sounds terrible. hope you recover fully and quickly.

thats one thing i fear is getting laid up for a whole season. time is already limited with most of us working, school, life period. but we love what we do. i know alot of us spend ALOT of money in hunting gear YEARLY. i know most of us practice our hearts out...scout our tails off etc..but i guess in the end, stuff happens...

i know i did get mono(yes the kissing disease!...YES from a girl!) 3 years ago right before rifle season. didnt bow hunt at the time so it was about my only shot at a buck..only a 2 week season. opening day was one of the days i could hunt and not miss school. i was better...but nowhere near 100% yet. asked the doc if rifle recoil would be bad for my spleen. he said nope shouldnt be(i still wonder if he realizes what kind of recoil a rifle puts out...) i did cancle my deer camp plans...didnt want to hinder dads hunting..we do ALOT of walking in the mountains and didnt want to ruin his day too. the Sunday before i drove to my buddies field to make sure my rifle was shootin true..took a nap right there in the field before driving home lol. Monday morning was the opener..i made it to my spot OK..had alot of people know where id be and check on me...11am i joined my group to drive..sat as close to the truck as possible..made it through the day...mono didnt stop me!

we all know Rob wont get held down by his ankle..heck he posts pics of him shooting on it all the time

but if something happens and we cant hunt...we cant hunt...saftey comes first...i rather be laid up for a season than the rest of my life because i was stupid about my first injury and made it worse..

twildasin

tough break get well soon!!

JeramyK

Tim, I am sorry to hear this news. I know all too well about eye injuries. I was in the ER last year to get a piece of metal removed from my left eye. I've been working on restoring my Camaro for the past 4 years. I had safety glasses on while grinding some metal and I still took a direct hit in the eye somehow. As in your case it was on the white part of the eye but it still hurt like heck. At first I had thought it came out but the next day it was still bothering me so I went in and had it removed. But it left a ring of rust on my eye. I had to go to an eye specialist a few days later and he removed the rust with a little dremel tool. And for about 2 weeks after I constantly felt like I had sand in my eye. I had to use some medicated eye drops and a topical antibiotic for 4 weeks. I had some blurry vision and my eye was highly sensitive to light for the first 2 weeks and then things went back to normal.

mwaite

[/align]As was posted above, the eye is the easiest to damage, but the fastest to heal. Give it time and you will heal. My buddy just came down with pneumonia a couple weeks ago, and he was supposed to go with me on my cow elk hunt on the 14th. He says he will still go, but I'm not sure yet, he has a lot of crap in his lungs still, and we'll be hunting around 7000ft, where we live is around 1500ft. Plus he has a cow hunt in Oct, and our deer hunt in Nov. I hope he gets healed, because I don't want to have to tell him not to come along, even if it is for his own good.

KodiakArcher

Bummer! Heal fast and remember next time: Safety Glasses! They've saved my bacon more than once.

HuntingBry

On the bright side your eye isn't injured too bad. Hopefully Motown is right and your eye will heal up quickly.

Get better soon.

GTOHunter

Tim,take care of your eye's and if possible don't over-strain it and be sure to keep putting any medicine in it if the Doctor has you do that?I injured my right eye last December while on vacation...I was picking up sticks in the yards and one had some small extra limbs on it and I hit my eye,my vision got blurry and I got the Wife and we headed to the Emergency Room in town.Luckily it was only slightly scratched and I had to put eye drops and medication in it for a few weeks....it didn't take very long and it healed up just fine.

Hope you recover fast and get out Bow Hunting!

Q2INWHITETAILS

bigtime6656 sorry to hear about the injury. I will tell you with the cut to the white of the eye or what they call the sclera it heals pretty fast its the hardest layer of the eye, your Optometrist should have prescribed a topical steroid and I am sure a antibiotic ointment like Erythromycin that will help it heal, follow his/her instructions and you will be shooting in no time and a good chance before your season. Good luck and keep us posted..

snake123

You guys scare the piss outta me. Ya got me so paranoid something gonna happen to me and I'm gonna be put out of order. Hope everyone heals well and soon enough to get out there and hunt