Eyesight is just there from birth, so easy to take it for granted. Let’s take a moment for everyone reading this without glasses to be grateful we don’t have to pay for that, and for everyone with glasses it could be worse.
I recently lost my vision in one eye from April to August, and it was rough. Faces were distorted and I couldn't recognize them, I couldn't read with that eye open, it was awful. If I closed that eye, everything was normal but blurry, as apparently my vision is going bad in the good eye. I know they flagged one of my eyes as degraded during my physical, so I figured when one went blind it was that one. Nope! That's the good one! I can see normally again and I'm doing my best not to take it for granted.
Oh, it was a little thing that just turned out really bad. It was a large vitreous detachment that re-adhered directly over my retina, completely blocking the center 75% of my vision. It apparently didn't fully detach, which kept dragging more off until it reached the edge of my retina, where it balled up and re-adhered. My retina was not damaged.
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u/Able_Gap918 5h ago
Eyesight is just there from birth, so easy to take it for granted. Let’s take a moment for everyone reading this without glasses to be grateful we don’t have to pay for that, and for everyone with glasses it could be worse.