# I just got a paper-cut on my eye-ball... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-a-paper-cut-on-my-eye-ball/124789 "2002-08-20T21:13:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-a-paper-cut-on-my-eye-ball/124789/41 "2002-08-21T23:42:52Z")
Jeez, just reading the thread title alone was enough to give me a serious case of the twitches. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2002, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-a-paper-cut-on-my-eye-ball/124789/42 "2002-08-22T05:04:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by StGermain \* > \*\*How’d the interview go? > > StG \*\* I got the job. 🙂 I guess she liked my Gautier Studed Black Leather Eye-Patch. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![GopherGod72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f0a364/32.png) [@GopherGod72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GopherGod72)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2002, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-a-paper-cut-on-my-eye-ball/124789/43 "2002-08-22T05:22:18Z")
Ack Alice… I did that once… on my way to duck hunting at 2am in the morning. I was reading a book VERY close (bad light in the truck) and sliced my eyeball with a papercut. Hurt like hell for a couple of days… luckly it was not my aiming eye! 😉 Thankfully eyes heal quicker then any other part of the body im told. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2002, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-a-paper-cut-on-my-eye-ball/124789/44 "2002-08-22T06:00:31Z")
I got a bad stye one time on the inside of my left eyelid. It had to be cut out, so they shot novocaine into the eyelid (_ouch!_), clamped the eyelid back (which forced me to watch, of course), and cut it out. The doctor leaned right down over my eye with the scalpel/scraper, saying things like, “Ew, it looks like CREAM CHEESE in there!” I don’t know if he was trying to be funny or what. Then I had to drive myself home (hadn’t thought to arrange a ride) with one eye covered–i.e., no depth perception–and blood dripping out from under the dressing. Awful experience. _But I’d do it again rather than take a papercut on my eyeball._ ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2002, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-a-paper-cut-on-my-eye-ball/124789/45 "2002-08-22T06:17:08Z")
Eyes heal fast, thankfully. Should I unlimber my oft-repeated time-I got-bit-in-the-eye-by-a-snake story :p? Not all that traumatic for me ( even though I bled like a stuck pig ), but sure freaked out the folks around me. Right through the eyelid and into the sclera with a slight puncturey sound ( not quite a _pop_, but close ). Turned the white of my eye red-black and all the folks at work started referring to me as “snake-eyes” :D. Never trust an Elaphe carinata, I tell ya. - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-a-paper-cut-on-my-eye-ball/124789/46 "2002-08-27T16:05:46Z")
I remember my little brother many years ago had a pet chicken. That son of a bitch pecked him on his eyeball one time. Actually took out a chunk. Good thing it missed the iris and pupil. I know that must’ve hurt like hell! Birds are freaky, you ever been up close to an ostrich…scary. Hope you are well Alice…🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BottledBlondJeanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/0ea827/32.png) [@BottledBlondJeanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BottledBlondJeanie)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-a-paper-cut-on-my-eye-ball/124789/47 "2002-08-27T19:06:57Z")
Just my 2 cents \*\* Alice \*\* but I’d stay away from the mascara for a couple of days. Remember all those fashion magazines advising us to throw out our mascara every 3 weeks or something obcene like that…seems it can harbor bacteria. Bacteria + Open wound = BAD ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-a-paper-cut-on-my-eye-ball/124789/48 "2002-08-27T20:04:02Z")
Anything happening to an eyeball just creeps me out, but a **PAPER CUT?** AAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH!!! Again, I’d like to know what it was you were reading so close that this happened. All I gotta say is 1) Take care and heal quickly, and 2) avoid lemons for a good long while! Take care, and for God’s sake, be careful! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-a-paper-cut-on-my-eye-ball/124789.md?page=2)