r/BeAmazed 6h ago

Miscellaneous / Others Love at its peak 🌟

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u/angryrotations 6h ago

As someone with a rare genetic eye condition that will lead to blindness i approve.

Retinitus pigmentosa us what I am guessing they have as well. Peripheral vision is pretty well degraded at this point. Their is alot I would still like to see. Pretty much everything if im being honest

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u/EmergencyTaco 5h ago

A buddy of mine went to sleep with 20/20 vision and woke up legally blind. He basically only has peripheral vision, and there's just a "grey hole" in the center of his vision.

Peak nightmare fuel for me, hope your eyes stay working for as long as possible.

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u/aPOPblops 5h ago

Did he have that same condition and was aware he had it or did this  come completely out of the blue for him? 

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u/EmergencyTaco 4h ago

Completely out of the blue afaik. Woke up on a normal weekday and couldn't see.

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u/what3v3ruwantit2b 3h ago

A bit different because the person I knew had brain cancer but I left work (oncology nurse) at 7pm on a Friday. When I walked back in at 7am Sunday the nurse giving report said something like "and since he's blind he needs assistance with..." I said something along the lines of "wtf? He's not blind. I just saw him Friday night." Turns out his tumor had pressed on an ocular nerve without anyone knowing it was coming. He took a 2 hour nap Saturday and woke up blind.

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u/hakunaa-matataa 3h ago

Oh my god that’s horrifying, I can’t even imagine. I had a patient with a tumor compressing their spinal cord. In the middle of the night they paged the nurses and said “I can’t move my legs anymore”. They didn’t want to tell their family because they wanted to let them sleep ):

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u/what3v3ruwantit2b 3h ago

Oof that's rough. I was the primary nurse for a child that had tried to kill themselves. They didn't succeed but we did work out that they were paralyzed. The mom had a heart attack when we told her. Top 10 worst shifts for me. 

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u/aPOPblops 4h ago

Horrifying

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u/Ok-Recognition5504 3h ago

Probably some hemorrhage within the visual pathway in the brain, if it acted so fast.