Eye ball injury

[cragginshred]

You backside 1 ball get hooked up start into the 1st wake and bam something goes horribly wrong -slam straight onto my face (into the water fortunately not into the ski). I rise from a tumbling motion to feel the slap in my face, my bell is wrung and my eye and lip hurt bad. All extremities are moving and the ski is still on as usual.

 

About 20 minutes later I look in the mirror and see the broken blood vessels in my left eye. The 2nd pic is today even worse. Thankfully my vision is fine, my head is not as I relive that slam into the water and am a bit sketched due to never having fallen like this. Wife and fellow skiers insist I go get it checked out......MD at prompt care said the eye will be red with the broken blood vessels for a couple of weeks.

 

This was the 1st set on my new Carbitex boots. I had been putting off breaking in the boots because I knew they would be stiff initially and I only have so much time to ski each week. I mounted them up for my 2nd set yesterday and went out just to test em but was surprised at how well they performed and began to go for complete passes. I could tell they both were stiff and yet reacted well so I started really over turning a bit to get them to react into the ski the way I am used to with my Vapor boots. On the crash pass I know I was tired and the boots did not allow me to get the ski on edge and must have plowed into the wakes. Lesson learned I think........taking tomorrow off (I can still go climbing) and hoping to ski Weds.

 

Conventional wisdom says keep breaking in the new boots, but I have a one year old pair of vapors perfectly broke in on a sequence plate that I am opting to go back to for a bit to get rid of the 'thought virus' from the crash then put the Carbitex back on later.

 

 

[6balls]

Thankfully those look kind of gnarly but turn out fine and benign most often. Subconjunctival hemorrhage.

[thager]

I had a similar result in my right eye many years back screwing around on my daughters wakeboard. Took the full hit in my right eye socket. I lost vision in that eye for about 5 minutes. As a pilot it scared the crap out of me!!! Needless to say, I have not wake boarded since! Saw that in one of my fighter pilot buddies also. Both eyes from Negative G.

[oldjeep]

It will look even prettier after it turns greenish yellow. Fortunately those are ugly but should go away.

[Razorskier1]

I get one of those about once a month year round for no reason at all.

[thager]

@Razorskier1 Never pays to wise off to the wife!

[jedgell]

Did that to both eyes on a reflex pre release at the wakes. No fun, took almost a month for the eyes to look normal again.

[cragginshred]

When did you guys start to ski again? It's only been 3 days and taking tomorrow off. Seeing the eye Doc tomorrow as it got worse with the redness spreading and it was more sensitive after rock climbing yesterday.

[SkiJay]

$12.95 Bomber floating safety glasses might be a thought:

https://goo.gl/n7bzOa

 

[oldjeep]

I never adjusted my activity, but never had one that hurt either.

[cragginshred]

@SkiJay you or any others use these glasses? My fear is that you could introduce a new and worse injury by breaking plastic being forced into my eye socket. I went down so hard it could have shattered these?

 

I will check the site maybe they are made for hard impacts?

[cragginshred]

 

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I wonder if using some Rain X type spray would keep the water from beading or obstructing view?

 

@Horton do you wear these or similar glasses still skiing?

[cragginshred]

@Mark_Matis cool thanks just called them. They look like the better option. They said a gold lens will prevent reflection issues and make the buoys pop in weird lighting.

[cragginshred]

Waiting to hear if Horton uses these

[John Brooks]

Within the past month or so @Horton did. I got a pair of clear ones and a pair of shaded ones. Work well.

[cragginshred]

@John Brooks do you use Rain X or anything to keep the water from beading up?

[John Brooks]

@cragginshred not yet but think it would be a good idea.

 

[SkiJay]

@cragginshred You've done more homework than I did when I decided to use these about six years ago. I was happy to know they were certified impact resistant safety glasses. I think they're certified as shooting glasses too, so I don't think "shattering" is an issue. The fact that they float was icing on the cake.

 

I have corrective lenses implanted inside my eyeballs, and eye impacts are a real bad idea. So I've skied in these glasses every set for the past six years. I've had all manner of face plants, and have found my glasses floating up to 50 feet away from me after hard falls. But I've never seen any sign of cracking or shattering.

[UWSkier]

@Razorskier1 try more fiber maybe?

[ski6jones]

I remember that @jedgell, still one of the worst crashes I've seen.

[Razorskier1]

@UWSkier - my most recent one I was in a small meeting at work. Felt something and the guy next to me says 'your eye just blew up'. I've also had them happen in my sleep on numerous occasions.

[DaveD]

Thinking too hard?

[ForrestGump]

I've used Bombers for years on the water when the glare is bad.