lol, so its not just me that is a dumb-arse!!! I have a very similar story. Working on some frags & something spashed into my eyes, ran out of the shed like a mad man & plunged face into sink, splashing water into open eyes and thats where I thought the problem ended. Eyes still felt a little irritated as if something was in them (apart from eyeball), but left it at that and went to bed. At about 4am, after rubbing eyes for several hours, work up with awful pain in my eyes, but managed to get back to sleep. Come the morning, I could barely open my eyes and if i opened the blinds, was in really bad pain, plus were watering to hell. Misses took me to hospital, after much convincing as I was just prepared to go back to bed & sleep it off (real hero). At the hospital, various doctors & various repeated explainations of what happend I was also prescribed eye drops, and had to see an eye specialist the following day. But before letting me leave the hospital they covered my eyes up, fortunately I was unable to see what I looked like as the girlfriend guided me out of the hospital.
But this is what I looked like with my face-bra on!!! (notice the lights are off as it killed my eyes to have them on.
anyway, got home & slept all day as couldnt watch tv or anything. Following day, still unable to see & like the other guy, started to feel sorry for myself & that I wouldnt see again & see my daughters get married when older. Anyway, up to see eye specilist & after various coloured dyes dropped into my eyes, giving futher eye drops & take it easy. In all, a rather scary few days & I now wear safety glasses. So be warned, I'm still not convinced about zoa's being poisonious, but they can definately cause serious pain.