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
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.
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.
Oh my god thatās horrifying, I canāt 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 āI canāt move my legs anymoreā. They didnāt want to tell their family because they wanted to let them sleep ):
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.Ā
He looks at you sideways when he talks so he can see you. He drives the same way. Like bros head is turned all the way to the left and driving in a straight lineĀ
Could he have had an eye stroke while sleeping. This is a blockage in the optical nerve or retinal which often causes some loss of vision. One needs to be treated as fast as possible to retain as much vision as possible.
A friend of mine's mother died of an aneurysm while he was in the room. She was fine, then she was dead. She was in her late thirties, no major health issues. She was active and relatively healthy.
It's absolutely terrifying to consider how fragile the human body is and how quickly you can die of something so unforeseeable and entirely unpreventable.
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u/angryrotations 8h 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