Eye irritation blows an industrial sized supertanker shipments-worth of festering dog anus, I accidentally ended up with a powder burn to my face, and had to have my eye irrigated with a saline flush for several hours in hospital, after some of a flashpowder composition went off, hitting me in the eye.
The other really, really bad eye injury I've had, was when I was pretty young, just starting out growing my wings, dipping my toes in the water so to speak, before I had a net connection of my own, and had nobody at all to learn the arts alchymical, never had the opportunity to have a mentor, but rather, had to go to the library, take out a haul of books on chemistry and bio, and work everything out from scratch for each and every synth and whilst not 100% of them, a very sizeable proportion of my reagents, having to save my pocket money, go round door to door trading on my youth and the presumption of innocence, along with the wish to aid an enterprising child, selling bouquets of flowers in exchange for whatever people were willing to give (cost me nothing, as there are loads of ornamental cherry trees around here. So doing things like that all day, every day, whenever there were things in season to be sold, was my little way of earning a crust to help fund all the HCl, phosphorus, solvents,needed, of course, scarcely feeling as though I could just walk up to mom and the old man, give them the puppy dog kid eyes and beg them to buy me a bottle of fuming sulfuric acid, some ether, and a few kilos of caustic soda instead of a comic book and bag of sweets
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As such, no mentor, and with my resources being those that I were resourceful enough to grant myself by study, blood, sweat and tears (well, tears rarely, generally to do with some sort of irritant vapors, or playing with teargases, studied hard enough alright, experiment plenty, but I really do wish I could have had someone to help me learn things like safety practises, short cuts, tips, tricks etc.
So I didn't at one point know about the need for using boiling chips to prevent superheating and flashboiling. And something eventually did, during one of my first few successful syntheses of complex organics rather than the inorganic chem, where things are often far less delicate, using techniques one would seldom use in ochem, such as heating things to red or even glowing white heat. This on the other hand was the synthesis of a certain sedative/euphoriant derivative of butyric acid, one thats also, interestingly enough, used to treat narcolepsy.
The chemical precursor to the target compound was being refluxed with caustic soda in a mixture of methanol and water. Not being experienced at all then really, no boiling stones in the flask, ending with a miniature krakatoa, blasted the boiling rxn mixture up out of the flask neck, a great deal of it all got splattered all over the kitchen walls, ceiling, windows, busy melting plastic window fittings, and cutting loose with a monstrous stench, emanating from...ehhhmm...well, from everywhere really at the time.
Quite a bit hit me though, right as I had to make a minor adjustment to my goggles, straight in the face, mostly my right eye, which has had seriously impaired vision ever since that incident. Had to do the eye irrigation long haul again, although this time I didn't go to hospital, but did that myself. I did at least manage to salvage not only the remaining contents of the pot, but a few pounds of the compound being worked upon after using paper towel rolls to mop up a very sizeable proportion of that which had not been blasted onto the ceiling and neglected to drip back down to the kitchen floor and worktops, extract the towel mush then return it to the pot and run the remainder of my synth to completion.
That happened years back, and that eye is still useless for detail at more than a few feet away, especially reading anything smaller than absolutely massive lettering, can just about make out the detail on my laptop posting this, if I were to only use my bad eye to view, if the laptop is sitting on my legs.
Odeon, what country are you from? if its the UK, then chloramphenicol eyedrops can be bought without the need for a prescription.
If your not, but need some still, PM me, I'd be happy to get hold of some for you and mail it your way, at cost of the drops+a postage stamp.
