"One of my colleagues ... stated yesterday that they had patients presenting at their clinic that put sunscreen on their eyeball, and presented that they were having pain and they were referred to an ophthalmologist," Patterson said.I'm sort of surprised that this wasn't headlined "Florida Man Put Sunscreen In His Eyes."
She said it only takes a few seconds of staring directly at the sun for retina damage.
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Only in California
Sunscreen's not supposed to be used to protect eyes, but that didn't stop people from trying.
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Oh, we have our very own flavor of idiot here. I'm not sure whether we give Florida a run for their money, but my feeling is we probably do.
-Doug in Oakland
And likely on socialized medicine.....Which means the rest of their fellow citizens will have to pay for their folly....
Last I checked, wages were high here and unemployment was low, so probably not. And Redding is like 77% white and fairly affluent. I used to race motorcycles there, and I have a few musician friends who moved there from Eureka.
-Doug in Oakland
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