--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, Jonathan Nicholls
<nichollsj85_at_y...> wrote:
> G'Day! I cant recall what the details were, but I heard that Jim's
eyesight it getting better or something...
It's more like "something". What had happened some time ago was
this: because my eyes were not getting sufficient nutrition from the
body, extra blood vessels were produced in an effort to get more
stuff to the eyes. However, those vessels were flawed and weak, and
they would rupture, causing blood to leak between the retina and the
back wall of the eye. Sometimes the blood would seep through the
retinal layer, polluting the clear gel of the eye. At first, it
looked like a 3-D hologram of a lava lamp blob, but as more vessels
ruptured, it became cloudy.
Laser surgery was performed numerous times to cauterize the
vessels, but they continued to grow back. Because of the amounts of
laser surgery I've endured, I've lost a pretty good chunk of my
peripheral vision, as well as my night vision.
The eye normally filters the fluid it contains on a daily basis
(though I think it takes several days or more for it to be totally
replaced). What is happening now is this: the left eye is by far
the worst. The vision in that eye is completely clouded due to all
the old blood and debris floating in the gel. The eye is slowly
filtering some of that out, and it is becoming only slightly less
cloudy, but enough so that it allows more light to enter the eye and
thusly allow more things to be seen.
Unfortunately, all the previous ruptures and surgeries have caused
scar tissue to form within the eye. This scar tissue has applied
pressure on the retina itself, tugging it this way and that.
Lifting an extremely heavy item could cause the retina to tear off
the back of the eye, so obviously, I refrain from doing such
activity. There are a few shadows in what I _can_ see through that
eye, which are most likely separated slivers of retinal tissue.
Those cannot be fixed. Think of the retina as a wet piece of tissue
paper, real fragile and easily torn or deformed. The scar tissue
has caused numerous folds and wrinkles to appear on the retina, and
that distorys what I see through that eye. Think of one eye as a
flat-mirrored retina and the other as a fun-house mirrored retina.
As the gel clears, a little more vision begins to return to the
eye. However, the retina in that eye is now flawed, and my brain is
not able to line up the images from both eyes. This is how you get
perspective and depth perception. Seeing one object from two
slightly different sources.
My right eye has become the dominant one, for obvious reasons. I
pretty much disregard what is seen through the left eye, though what
it does see often appears as warped ghost images in my visual field
(hence, why I must ride the motorcycle with one eye closed.
Otherwise, I see two sets of everything, but they're not lined up).
So yeah, the vision is improving in the left eye, but not
necessarily in a useful manner.
>
> Jim, how's about an update on the matter? And whats this so
called "secret site"? It's been driving me loopy!!
Shhh. It's a secret. And yes, it is still being assembled (third
version now, though I've finally got the whole premise figured out
behind it!) Once the Skunkworks site is finished (still trying to
figure out how to do something...specific...on that site), the
Hidden site will also be available. If you can find it. >;)
--JMH
Received on Sun Oct 24 2004 - 08:50:38 CDT