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# this is happening to my eyes :(
found out today i'm losing my eyesight rapidly. i'll probably be blind in my left eye within 12 months. there's a good chance my right eye can be operated on successfully, but the left one is fucked. i'm a bit pissed off, to say the least.
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 20:50, archived)
# Sorry to hear that
Life can be a proper twat sometimes :(
(I helped save b3ta! Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 20:51, archived)
# :( very sorry to hear that. Still, with the current rate of medical progress maybe in a few years you'll be able to get a robot left eye that shoots lazers and stuff.
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 20:52, archived)
# Borg Monkey!
"Resistance really IS futile. You WILL be ravished."
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 20:56, archived)
# I WANT THIS TO HAPPEN!
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 20:56, archived)
# *resists*
*resists*
*resists*
laSers!!!
(I helped save b3ta! da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:00, archived)
# Actually it's LAZORS
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:09, archived)
# nope
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
(I helped save b3ta! --- ---, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:10, archived)
# It's allowed to be spelled 'lazers' as long as it's preceeded by the word 'fricking'
(I helped save b3ta! da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:14, archived)
# nope
LAZORS.
icanhascheezburger.com/2007/11/11/lazors-charged-fire-at-will/
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:15, archived)
# Lazer-Armed Zapping Evil Robots
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:43, archived)
# Good luck with the right one.
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 20:52, archived)
# thanks
oh well, i can at least opt for the pirate look
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:02, archived)
# Well this is b3ta; take up wearing a monocle!
and a false 'tash too!
(I helped save b3ta! da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:05, archived)
# good idea!
*bins the immac*
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:06, archived)
# Ooh
that's a bag of shit.

eer...as in, I believe you, I just mean it's a load of crap.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 20:52, archived)
# :)
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:02, archived)
# What do they say it is?
(I helped save b3ta! da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 20:53, archived)
# it's mostly cataracts
which is why the right one may well be fixable, but i've had loads of nerve damage to my eyes due to birth defects. there isn't really a name for it, it had never been seen before i was born.
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 20:55, archived)
# I spent 2 months in India in 1984 at a mobile eye hospital
They did about 150 operations a day.
The technique has improved considerably since then; lens replacements etc. are commonplace. What is more worrying is what I presume is optic neuritis? It is often bilateral...
(I helped save b3ta! da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 20:58, archived)
# i really don't know
i was in and out of moorfields for 15 years, they did the best they could. i just know the left one can't be helped.
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:01, archived)
# Awwww :(
What's the condition called?
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 20:53, archived)
# fuckedness, as far as i can tell
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:04, archived)
# How horrible for you
Will you have extremely bad vision or just total dark?

Will you be required to do drugs to sort it?

EDIT Reading...sec
(no, it isn't ilovehorses)
(macroscian (1 like), Wed 28 Jul 2010, 20:55, archived)
# i don't think drugs will work
the left eye has been getting worse over the last few years, but the right eye has been picking up the slack, so i never noticed just how bad it was. i'm not sure if i will be able to see light, i guess i'll just have to wait and see.
or not.
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 20:58, archived)
# Reading in the wiki...
mainly some poetic nonsense about the origin of the word, how useful.

That type of surgery on the eye looks so scary (been considering lasic myself but a vid of the process put me off it).
(macroscian (1 like), Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:05, archived)
# i had 5 eye surgeries
from the age of 6, most of them experimental. surgery doesn't bother me.
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:07, archived)
# Insist on a camera eye, William Gibson Mona Lisa Overdrive-ish
record that half of your vision, write a book about it - awakenings style, sell to Bollywood and with that shitload of cash from it and the sequels/franchise you can be an international jetsetter. With one eye tho =(
(macroscian (1 like), Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:12, archived)
# it's got to be worth a try
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:16, archived)
# I know they won't help the actual condition, but you have my sympathies, Milady..
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 20:56, archived)
# thanks :)
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:05, archived)
# Crap!
noooooooo. You need your eyes. We need your eyes. Fucking life. And I just started using glasses at 54, and I'm pissed about that.

(I helped save b3ta! cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 20:57, archived)
# i've had them since i was 15
they make me look like an owl
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:08, archived)
# That's a real shit.
doesn't look like Sponge Bob is too happy about it either.
There's hope though.
Give it a few years and it'll wrap round the front of your head like an alice band made of aluminium cans.
(Cakie Rose from the dead on, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 20:57, archived)
# i want bionic eyes!
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:04, archived)
# What!
nOOo! I hope you can keep some sight, I do.
: (
(I helped save b3ta! --- ---, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:08, archived)
# me too
i've already tried walking to the shop with my eyes shut, just to see if i can
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:11, archived)
# : )
If I had spares I would give them to you.
(I helped save b3ta! --- ---, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 18:40, archived)
# Really sorry to hear that, Smash :(
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:11, archived)
# thanks
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:13, archived)
# that sucks
good luck with the right one.

Having two healthy balls in your face is overrated anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:26, archived)
# That's harsh. Made worse that you haven't been given an explanation as to why.
Cataract ops are about as routine as it gets, so there has to be some sort of underlying corneal dystrophic condition or retinopathy that is fouling things up.
It's difficult to be positive, but there are all sorts of things being done to get around various types of blindness and it might just be that you're seeing (sorry) the wrong person.
(I helped save b3ta! Bryan Damage Cheese sandwich?, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:28, archived)
# :((
Poor smash, this is major sucky.

big virtual hug type things
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 18:38, archived)