I have the actual eye in and not a glass eye. I decided to keep it because there is a painful recovery period (or so I was told) with the removal of the eye. Like I said, I just kind of wanted to get it over with and move on, and a painful recovery period didn't seem like it was going to help.
I'll probably have something done eventually, but I'm not sure what. Right now, it's about 80% of the size of my other eye, due to loss of pressure fluid (that, you know, oozed down my face after I got shot - most offensive question I've ever been asked is "Did you lick it off?" - the answer is "No"). You can definitely tell, as soon as you look at me, that something is not right with the eye. There's also the fact that to sew the hole up, the pupil had to kind of be manipulated and blah blah blah. I'll take a picture with a camera that has a good macro function. Anyway, I haven't been very active in pursuing an eye cover (they make them to look exactly like your other eye) because I don't really give a fuck what I look like (because those that would judge me by appearance aren't people that I want to know). But yeah, one of these days, so I don't freak out the kids' friends.
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