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Question about eye injuries
I tried to put this in the ask the fighter's forum but I guess I'm not allowed to create threads there. I don't know where else to put this but I would really like an answer.
About a year ago I had my right orbital bone fractured in a fight, and the eye doctor told me that there was an increased chance of my retina detaching because of the trauma my eye had suffered. Just yesterday I got hit in the same eye (playing basketball this time, though) and had the bottom part of my field of vision give out. I went back to the doctor today and he said there was a little spot where it looked like my retina might be beginning to separate.
This scared the shit out of me for two reasons. One, a detached retina means I'm blind in my right eye. Two, even if I can get surgery to correct it, the doctor couldn't seem to stress enough that my days of fighting were over.
My question is...in a sport with so many nasty eye injuries, how do fighter's cope with this? Just keep plugging along and hope that they never go blind? Do I just have a pussy retina? What's the deal?
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