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Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
That's interesting. I've often wondered about shit like that (usually under the influence) but not having some experience remotely related to reference, I'd never been able to come up with a conclusion. Thanks man.

Well, think about it, you can live a basically normal life with only one eye. It definitely takes some adjustment, but it's not a major life-altering happening unless you let it be. The only thing that's affected is my vision. Driving is a little bit trickier, but bigger mirrors and whatnot make that a non-issue. I'll never be able to serve in the armed forces, but I wasn't planning on doing that anyway. I decided pretty much right after it happened that I wasn't going to spend the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself.

If you lose a limb though (or even just a hand or a foot), think about how different things are. Spankin' that booty, using a computer, driving, eating, picking up groceries, bench pressing... most of the functions of an eye are duplicated in the other eye. Depth perception obviously is gone (close one eye and then try to catch stuff that someone throws to you, like a pen or an apple - kinda tricky now!) and peripheral vision is affected a bit. I needed to re-learn how to shoot a rifle, 'cause my right eye was the dominant one (and it's the one I lost). But I can still do all that other stuff.

Now, if it was between losing both eyes or losing a hand... no fuckin' choice. Good-bye hand. They can re-attach those and you need serious physical therapy to make it useful, but with the hundreds of thousands (millions?) of nerve fibers working that eye... fat fucking chance. Maybe in my lifetime I'll see out of it again.

So anyway, there's some perspective on it for you.