I had pretty bad depth perception when I was a kid.
My medical history's pretty whack, but my eyesight was
so bad, I tripped over things right in front of me.
That's why, even today, I still look down at my feet
(by instinct) so as not to trip.
I don't really know what you're going through Jim or
Iceburgh69. But I hope your eyes get better,
especially Jim's. Hope luck smiles more on you, Jim!
--- Iceburgh69 <walksallroads_at_softhome.net> wrote:
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I know more or less what you're going through, though
not for teh same
reason. I was born with a lazy left eye. My vision in
that eye was so bad, I
was legally blind in that eye. As time went on, my eye
improved, and now I
no longer need glasses. Everything I see out of my
left eye's still hazy,
unfocused, and ghostly. As a resuult, my depth
perseption's a little off.
However, I've adapted around it to where I can see
depth and judge distance
to a degree. Target shooting with both eyes open with
a scope, now that
sucks. Same with using a telescope the same way.
Iceburgh69
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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.
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