Sun tan from welding?

[aarch]

I dont have Arc eye but you make it sounds scary

Scary? Hmm, difficult. Kinda scary, in that you worry about your eyes and being blind, but then some people are blind already and do okay.
I imagine an arc eye reunion party in a pub. Everyone there has experienced it and have come to celebrate that they've got over it. Some may now be blind (maybe just in one eye) but, hopefully, not in pain any more. Many stories would be told, but most of all, avoiding the grief of the non existent grit in the eye(s) would be talked about (the streaming, bloodshot eye(s) the embarrassing situations that arise thereby, the difficulty doing stuff, the lack of sleep, the sheer hell on earth trying not to rub the f***ker(s) to peace again)
If you'd never experienced arc eye then you wouldn't know what they were on about, and would wonder what the party was about.
Would I say go and stare at the sun for a while and come back and join the party later, with the story of your experience?
No, I'd say make your best efforts never to go there.
But, hell, it's an experience (and try not to go there)

 

[Lippyp]

I got snow blindness walking in the peak district one day. We'd been out for theree days and the weather had been truly dreadful, we sat having lunch at the side of the snake pass in 8 fgoot deep snowdrifts, the fourth day it cleared up and the sun came out, no sunglasses. Next day I could hardly see, eyes were all swollen up and watering, took a couple of days to go down. Arc eye is very similar I understand. It's not something I'd want to repeat, two days in a darkened room with a cold wet flannel over my eyes.

 

[MrFluffy]

Many stories would be told, but most of all, avoiding the grief of the non existent grit in the eye(s) would be talked about (the streaming, bloodshot eye(s) the embarrassing situations that arise thereby, the difficulty doing stuff, the lack of sleep, the sheer hell on earth trying not to rub the f***ker(s) to peace again)

Youve had prk laser treatment to correct your short-sightedness too then?
I had the blindspots before the laser surgery before anyone makes the link

 

[malcolm]

I was off work for 2 months last year after getting a bit of tree in my eye. According to the leaflet the cornea has the highest concentration of pain sensors anywhere in the body.

It's the constant pain and hardly any sleep at all for days on end that struck me. But there are longer term problems - once eyes have been damaged once they are much more succeptable to damage again. Pays to take good care of the things.