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This spring in a mountain biking accident I cut my cornea on a muddy stick. Ended up with an awful Keratitis, Acanthameoba and bacterial infection. It hurt super bad took until November of putting basically bleach and acid in my eyes and cutting away at infected tissues. Well anyways it scared over and now I have an almost completely blind spot in my right eye smack dab in the middle of my pupil. I can only really see out of the very edges and even then it’s super super blurry and the middle is just blobs of color and light. I’m not legally blind cause I don’t have it in the other eye. I’ve done pretty well this season learning some new spins both way spins and switch both way spins and some new rail tricks. Just was curious if anyone else out there has any experience with skiing blind. Also -11/10 would not recommend ever having to put basically bleach and acid eye drops in your eyes while there is a 4x4mm square cut out of your cornea it hurts like a bitch. To add to that I’d encourage you all to wear some sort of glasses or goggles to protect your eyes biking and even skiing.
Basically me eye infected me eye went blind me eye hurt me wanna know if anyone else that’s blind ski park. It’s only one eye tho :( I can’t legally be blind
I should definitely wear stuff over my eyes more when I ski.
Also on the subject of going blind I should probably stop staring at a screen for like 7hr+ a day
**This post was edited on Mar 22nd 2021 at 10:57:55pm
Damn man, hopefully you can get that scare tissue removed. I know most of the time scar tissue kinda goes away after a few years on skin, got no idea what’s it’s like on the eyeball
WoFlowzBasically me eye infected me eye went blind me eye hurt me wanna know if anyone else that’s blind ski park. It’s only one eye tho :( I can’t legally be blind
i am legally blind in one eye and ski park
just fine
just can’t ski switch over my left shoulder very well
however my condition i’ve been like this my whole life so i don’t have any depth perception issues or anything it’s just how i see normally is out of one eye
gorbdawggybrenti am legally blind in one eye and ski park
just fine
just can’t ski switch over my left shoulder very well
however my condition i’ve been like this my whole life so i don’t have any depth perception issues or anything it’s just how i see normally is out of one eye
Ah same I still have issues coming into jumps where I’ll feel like it’s to little speed then land flat on a jump I’ve hit 100times. Atleast it can make the rails seem shorter or taller
WoFlowzAh same I still have issues coming into jumps where I’ll feel like it’s to little speed then land flat on a jump I’ve hit 100times. Atleast it can make the rails seem shorter or taller
did you recently hurt your eye? i cannot relate to this
ok my b just read the OP
**This post was edited on Mar 24th 2021 at 6:21:44pm
My eyes used to be so bad, could see great within 2 feet everything else was blurry, skiing was rough and almost ran over a few people and decided somethings git ti be done and now I can't see anything within 2 feet but it's really good far away. Eye problem are the pitts.
TnskiAlso, you might be able to get a new lense or something, it's a nothing operation, takes 5 minutes
The lense would be nice as I already have vision issues but my whole cornea on top of the pupil is full thickness scar tissue :( docs can’t do anything but a cornea transplant which is expensive af, the doctor was straight with me and said it’s extremely painful and so is recovery. And there’s other issues the risks really out weigh the benefits considering it could also give me another infection cause the eye would have another cut in it for a few months.
WoFlowzThe lense would be nice as I already have vision issues but my whole cornea on top of the pupil is full thickness scar tissue :( docs can’t do anything but a cornea transplant which is expensive af, the doctor was straight with me and said it’s extremely painful and so is recovery. And there’s other issues the risks really out weigh the benefits considering it could also give me another infection cause the eye would have another cut in it for a few months.
There’s some treatments in India and Korea and German and I think Sweden but their experimental and a long way from happening in the us. But I’m skiing and still have my eye so Just thankful
WoFlowzThere’s some treatments in India and Korea and German and I think Sweden but their experimental and a long way from happening in the us. But I’m skiing and still have my eye so Just thankful
Good attitude, got to ignore the bullshit and appreciate the steaks
Piss_BoyThis story has terrified me to the point that I went and grabbed my safety glasses from the last pow day and set them next to my bike helmet
Yeah well I mean it’s good and bad. It was super painful and completely ruined my whole spring summer and fall and I recovered “quick” and was lucky I didn’t loose my eye itself. I’d never wish that upon anyone. It’s just a recommendation and I’ve been trying to get more friends to use some glasses and even just people on the trail. But atleast maybe I can help prevent someone else from getting something similar
WoFlowzYeah well I mean it’s good and bad. It was super painful and completely ruined my whole spring summer and fall and I recovered “quick” and was lucky I didn’t loose my eye itself. I’d never wish that upon anyone. It’s just a recommendation and I’ve been trying to get more friends to use some glasses and even just people on the trail. But atleast maybe I can help prevent someone else from getting something similar
Not comparable to what happened to you at all but one time I asked this girl for her number while she was going up the lift over our park, she just laughed. Then the next time she was going up the lift I was about to go off the lip of a jump and she clapped her skis together and a chunk of slush fell straight into my eye and I couldnt see for the rest of the day lol. Glad you recovered quickly
WoFlowzThere’s the scar tissue it’s gotten better where there wasn’t cuts or scrapes done by the doctors but it’s still not pleasant. Plus I can’t see still
WoFlowzThe very edges I can make out shapes and stuff but not clearly the middle is just full of big blobs or color or light or dark depending on the light
I'm no eye doctor, but it appears then that you can "see" with that eye. It's not like there's literally a part of your eye that isn't registering vision in the brain (although you probably wouldn't even know it, because it's not like you would "see" black or whatever, it's that there would be no vision at all. That's what's so fascinating with people that are completely blind. They don't walk around "seeing" black. It's that they don't "see" at all. Nothing is registering in the brain to see. (Also, I could be totally wrong with that, that's just what I've read on the interwebs))
JAHpowI'm no eye doctor, but it appears then that you can "see" with that eye. It's not like there's literally a part of your eye that isn't registering vision in the brain (although you probably wouldn't even know it, because it's not like you would "see" black or whatever, it's that there would be no vision at all. That's what's so fascinating with people that are completely blind. They don't walk around "seeing" black. It's that they don't "see" at all. Nothing is registering in the brain to see. (Also, I could be totally wrong with that, that's just what I've read on the interwebs))
Well ig I can see true but it’s not great seeing just blobs of light or color and then slight shapes towards the sides. Imagine looking through like a few prices of scotch tape if that makes sens
**This post was edited on Mar 26th 2021 at 11:26:55am
JAHpowI'm no eye doctor, but it appears then that you can "see" with that eye. It's not like there's literally a part of your eye that isn't registering vision in the brain (although you probably wouldn't even know it, because it's not like you would "see" black or whatever, it's that there would be no vision at all. That's what's so fascinating with people that are completely blind. They don't walk around "seeing" black. It's that they don't "see" at all. Nothing is registering in the brain to see. (Also, I could be totally wrong with that, that's just what I've read on the interwebs))
This reminded me of when in elementry school to cure boredom, I would try to keep my head in place, and look up with my eyes as far as I could and try to see the end of field of vision
