Can It Really Make You Go Blind???

[amber.hodge]

So, we just got home from a fun filled 5 hours at the local emergency room...

When I got home from work today, ben was on the couch and said he felt like he was coming down with something, but that it was mostly a headache coming from the area of his right eye....his eye felt swollen and kept watering....then I noticed it looked funny....and really red....
He has 20/15 vision and so we decided to go to the emergency room when he covered his left eye and couldn't see anything but a big blur out of his right eye. Now all we know is that he doesn't have glaucoma (no pot for ben), and he doesn't have a detached retna....We have to go for an appt with an opthamalogist (sp) tomorrow.....

He says if he goes blind he's selling the jeep....I say he's just gonna have to be a maid and daddy daycare :D

His dad always said he was amazed ben didn't go blind from his high school extra curriculars (family site edidted)...maybe it has latent effects

[desertrubi]

I hope not!:eek:

[desertrubi]

I hope everything works out and he's gets better soon.

[amber.hodge]

me too, he's a cranky blind man....and he can't play piano like ray charles...he does construction.....you can't live in a house a blind man built....

[AZG23]

lol...until this gets straightened out....there will be alot of unused tissue around the Jeep club tonight!! LOL :D


seriously...hopefully itll all work out...they couldnt tell you anything at the ER..??

and if its only in one eye...he can still drive the Jeep....I do it all the time with both eyes closed...

[Allen]

It's probably some virus he picked up in the Gila!

Hope he gets better soon!

[papajeep]

The Gila has been known to cause optical rectumitus from time to time:D

[lancetkenyon]

When looking at porn on the internet.....KEEP HANDS ON KEYBOARD!!!

[samdog3]

It;s All The Dust From Sun
Mine Were The Same, Cold Rag And Drops, Took Care Of It,

[offroadaz]

okay lame blind joke

how did helen kellers parents tease her when she was younger?




they rearranged the furniture



hope he gets better soon, sounds like it might be allergy related. Hopefully it is something simple

[Wayco]

Q: Why don't blind people skydive?








A: Scares the hell out of the seeing eye dog!

[amber.hodge]

lol...until this gets straightened out....there will be alot of unused tissue around the Jeep club tonight!! LOL :D


seriously...hopefully itll all work out...they couldnt tell you anything at the ER..??

and if its only in one eye...he can still drive the Jeep....I do it all the time with both eyes closed...

Well,they could tell it wasn't a detached retna....it is not a tumor....not a bleeding hemmorhage (sp)....and due to a freakish test where they took something that looked like a rubber condom protected ladies toy and bounced it on his bare eyeball to get eye pressure - he does not have an acute onset of glaucoma --- they just said they had no clue and he has to see this Winkler guy today (the fonze??). It is his aiming eye for firing a weapon so this is very serious....
I so tired....
The jeep - this just gives me more driving time!! :D

[amber.hodge]

Thanks for the jokes, guys....I know he is nervous, because he always jokes more when he is nervous or scared....He has been like a regular stand up comedian the past 12 hours....He said that if this is due to touchey selfey he's going to have to have some time alone, because he wants to get all the bang for his buck if he's going blind! LOL

[amber.hodge]

I'm going to kill the doctor...his discharge papers say to "have head and neck rubbed" for his headache symptoms....this is malarky!!!

[offroadaz]

seems like they would take some x-rays and see whats going on. Did they at least do that?

I had it happen to me once before with almost the same symptoms, my left eye turned red and started to swell shut. It was due to a really bad sinus infection behind my eye. DR put me on some antibiotics and in about a week things were back to normal

[amber.hodge]

seems like they would take some x-rays and see whats going on. Did they at least do that?

I had it happen to me once before with almost the same symptoms, my left eye turned red and started to swell shut. It was due to a really bad sinus infection behind my eye. DR put me on some antibiotics and in about a week things were back to normal

Cat scan, ladies toy bouncing on the bare eyeball test...., bright light to look in the eye....that's all.

They said no antibiotics till they get to the doc.

[Jdemonto@Airpark Jeep Sales]

Is there any discharge?????

One time I was driving to San Diego in my pickup (NO A/C) and we were close to Ocotillo and my eye burned..Look at the rear view and it was bright red with Green discharge...YUK. Pulled over and cleaned it..used some visene..all better..just a odd experience:o


***EDIT*** Did I mention it was 115*
Jason

[amber.hodge]

no discharge.....

Well, after calling 13 docs or so, we got an appt and I gotta go..

[trailrunner58]

Any numbness in his face?

[desertrubi]

Hope everything works out.

If not, he's going to end up with tennis elbow too.:D

Also, can I get the name of that doctor? I need to go see him and get a doctors note like that.:D

[amber.hodge]

Mercy Gilbert Hospital....massages galore

[Hivemind]

I tried to help him out
but I can't get used to the tilt
you can't live in a house a blind man built....

[AZG23]

I tried to help him out
but I can't get used to the tilt
....


WOW...For a minute there I thought you were trying to keep him from going blind :eek:

:cool:

[amber.hodge]

Well, we saw Dr. Wooten of Swagel Wooten Eye Centers.....

He has Pars Planitis, which she herself has only seen in a half dozen patients in her career. It apparently is an inflamation - not an infection - caused by at this time unknown factors whose effect on the eye is a swelling and pain behind the cornea area. He has to go to another specialist on Thursday....
No driving or work....neck rubs to help with the head aches (darned doctors are evil)...

I get to drive the jeep to work! :D I'll have to drive him to the doc on Thursday too.

I think we're going to farrellis tonight to see Next so he can be consoled with his favorite place on earth. (movie theater with full dinner menu and even alcoholic beverages www.cinemasupperclub.com )

[amber.hodge]

OH, JUST SO EVERYONE KNOWS....(THIS IS FROM BEN)...

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITY...WHACK AWAY!!

[amber.hodge]

ROTFLMAO!! Ben just got his very own eye patch.....lol - he looks so funny - I'm trying to get him to say "arrrrrr matey" but he just doesn't see the humor in being blind...do I get resource money now?

[offroadaz]

hehe wheres the pics? Im sure someone on here can photoshop his face onto jack sparrow :)

[desertrubi]

Yes, have to post a picture.

[4 Wheelers Supply]

There is a Jeep under there some where!:p :D

http://i12.tinypic.com/5xy11g8.jpg


j/k Tell him we hope he gets better soon. I am all out of pirate jokes!:)

[1BLKJP]

You better be careful Amber, you don't want an Angry Pirate. :D :D :D

Glad that he's going to be okay.

[amber.hodge]

I'd like to get pics but he's still a bit butt-hurt...between his mother and I we've been hitting him with one-liners all day....and then his depth perception is shot along with vision so he has to be chauffered....He couldn't really help wrench with Yelacon because he kept hitting his head on stuff due to the lack of sight....He's really sad about it. I'm driving the jeep all week and leaving him the crown victoria - at least if he drives and totals that in an emergency where he has to leave the house he'll be safer in the crash and he won't total the Jeep.

Will get on the pics....Remi has a jack sparrow costume.........

[ademster]

I think I know what caused this..























It was your white pale legs from Sunday..




but seriously I hope it all goes well Thursday and they say it is something like a small dirt spec somewhere.....

[amber.hodge]

If that would cause him eye problems, he would have experienced them 2 years ago! :D

[ademster]

true

[amber.hodge]

Well, after the docs today, they still cannot say what is causing it because they don't know, but he has 2 things:

Pars Planitis (swelling of eyeball behind cornea due to unknown causes making the vision go down to around 10% in that eye) - this is in right eye only
UVitis (ocular pain from light) - both eyes

Originally, we were told that it would take about a month to get vision back....today they dropped the other shoe and let us know it could take up to 2 years to never for it to be better. He is not allowed to work, drive a commercial or military vehicle, and can only drive a civilian vehicle in dire emergencies.....which I don't like the idea of since he cannot even walk from one end of the house to the other without clotheslining himself on a corner or a cabinet or the couch.....

Needless to say, I will be getting out the creeper, going to napa or checker and changing the oil myself tomorrow to avoid him needing stitches for banging his head on something....he's having a hard time with this and pushing himself too hard to do things....

[ademster]

This totaly blows.. I am so sorry that this has happened..

just keep hoping for something to change and it was just a piece of some sort of debris in his eye...

[amber.hodge]

The debris is out....out as in there wasn't any....they looked with super bright lights and the optical magnifying glass 4 separate occasions.....dialated his pupils 2 separate days, did eye test upon eye test...even gave him a Cat Scan....cultures...etc...

I'm just praying it will leave as quickly as it came and quick. If he is disabled permanently, we'll just sell the car, and he'll stay home with the boy and I'll have to manage to work full time and cook and clean....not much different than my current responsibilities. :) He'll still be hot to me, even if the metro short bus picks him up at the door to go places!

[ROKCRLR]

Crap, that really sucks! I hope he gets better soon.

[amber.hodge]

We do too.....I told him if he's permanently this way and gets discharged from the Army he can just get all the equipment he needs and since the one eye works fine, he can adapt and go into the fabrication business...

[Fire Ball]

I hope everything works out but don't get too freaked out just yet. I know of 2 people who are basically blind in one eye and still drive. Takes a while to get used to depth.

Besides, no one is writing his off just yet :)

[AZG23]

Im blind in one eye....I still drive, draw, and shoot (very well) its NOT the end of the world..it just sucks..:D

[amber.hodge]

;) the depth is the problem.....that's why he keeps running into things. :) I think we'll wait until he stops running into things on foot for him to get behind the wheel.

[AZG23]

;) the depth is the problem.....that's why he keeps running into things. :) I think we'll wait until he stops running into things on foot for him to get behind the wheel.


Didjoo get my PM...?

[amber.hodge]

Got it - :) thanks - responded.

Ben says we can only do night runs until I get more experience or the UVitis goes away......it hurts his eyes for daytime light exposure, plus he can see out of the left eye better at night and would be less likely to have a nervous breakdown while I'm driving! :D

[ademster]

http://www.levonius.com/adam/wheeling/ben.jpg

http://www.levonius.com/adam/wheeling/Captain%20Ben%20Sparrow.jpg

[amber.hodge]

Oh, god, that is my husband.....LOL you do great work with photo shop --- its just unfortunate you didn't have to photoshop on the patch!!

[ademster]

Nope... he was wearing it already
I could have done better but I rushed it.. and couldnt find a decent picture of Sparrow.

[amber.hodge]

It made him laugh, which I haven't heard a real laugh out of him in a week. Thanks.

[ademster]

NOW ITS YOUR AVATAR>>>>>> Thats awesome...

[amber.hodge]

LOL I had to - its even better than the jeep sinking - I also emailed it to all of our family.... Hee hee! it is really scarey what is going on, so the more humor we can have, the better.

[amber.hodge]

With that attire, Sarge might just dump Simon for Ben! :D

[ademster]

lmao he just might..

Ben... I am gonna have Amber stop by my work tomorrow to pick up my side arm for you to take to your buddy... and maybe some weekend to blow off steam blow through a few hundred rounds.. I will se if my brother in law would like to go and bring his damn new 20 weapons.

[amber.hodge]

????? Ben never reads this unless I'm home - now that he's half blind he REALLY never reads this board.... I'll let him know you wanted him to tell me to do that. I'm lost as to which buddy.....I don't see any of them carrying safely if it is one of the pre-marriage buddies.....He was the only non-retard in his whole group.....