another one eye update.

Jack O'Neill

Jack O'Neill

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I drove my truck yesterday .:) Very interesting , had to keep looking in the side view mirror to make sure I was staying in my lane :eek:. Sure glad I live in a small town with little traffic. Things be looking up . Also tested a new gun I bought 2 days before the surgery , damn , best I ever shot . Was it the gun or a blurry left eye ?? :jerkit: :eek:

Thanks all for all your best wishes .
 
Awesome Glad to hear you still have both eyes! I apologise I havent been follwing this as closely as I should, what's the ETA to having the other eye healed?

Jason
 
ONeill said:
I drove my truck yesterday .:) Very interesting , had to keep looking in the side view mirror to make sure I was staying in my lane :eek:. Sure glad I live in a small town with little traffic. Things be looking up . Also tested a new gun I bought 2 days before the surgery , damn , best I ever shot . Was it the gun or a blurry left eye ?? :jerkit: :eek:

Thanks all for all your best wishes .
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I can feel for you. I got a piece of steel in my eye on the job, and had to go the local ER to get it picked out. Since I was driving the company truck I had to get it back to the office after they had got the steel out. I ended up driving close to a hundred miles with my eye patched. Talk about having no depth perception, if I even saw a vehicles brake lights come on I immediately got on the brakes. It's scarry driving like that.
The eye later had to have more steel removed and it got an infection. At the time my daughter was just learning to drive and could not drive after dark on her learners permit. She had to go somewhere one night and the eye was giving me so much trouble watering and fuzzy vision I had to wear sunglasses at night just to be able to stand the lights of the oncoming vehicles! Only did that once and said not again till it healed!!!!!!!!!!
How did you hurt your eye?
 
Good to hear you are doing better Jack. Just wear a patch when making knives cause the one eyed ones looked better than the two eyed ones. Hehehehe....... Best wishes!
 
The shooting improvement is definitely the blurry eye. I actually will take out my left contact for a long day at the range with a scoped rifle. You always want to shoot with both eyes open but you naturally focus on the eye looking through the optics. A silver lining in every cloud I guess. Good luck on the eye surgery.
 
I feel your pain, kinda. This past week I've had three surgeries just to get the steel out of my cornea and the rust that came with it. All better now however. I hope you recover as well as I did.

Best wishes,
Brook
 
Good news on the progress. Watch the driving. Depth perception is critical.

I had an experience similar to Dixie's when I was a young fella. Got out of ER with an eye patch following an eye injury. Had a hot date with a hot momma and was running late. Came to a stop sign way too fast in my little VW bug and was up on two wheels cutting the turn. I made it back on the ground and got to my girl friend's house okay. Then I got even luckier! :D;)
 
Been there and done that too. Good luck on the recovery. When I shot competition in the Navy we used to cover the weak lens on our shooting glasses. This way the target and front sight were able to be in focus.

Hey Phil, Played that sympathy card EH.:D:D
 
A C Richards said:
Been there and done that too. Good luck on the recovery. When I shot competition in the Navy we used to cover the weak lens on our shooting glasses. This way the target and front sight were able to be in focus.

Hey Phil, Played that sympathy card EH.:D:D
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Now that is interesting Chuck . I use to shoot with the swat team leader and sniper in Reno and he never mentioned anything about that , he just gave me hell for all my other bad habits.:jerkit:

I always knew Phil was an old hippie , but I thought it was V.W. vans not bugs .
 
Don't get me started on my VW vans and bugs stories!

In the immortal words of Augustus McCray of Lonesome Dove, "A man who won't cheat at cards to get a poke (make love) don't want it bad enough."
 
Too take it one further, we would cover the good eye too and put a pinhole through the cover material. This would really bring everything into focus. Nuf of the highjack. Hope the eye gets better Jack.
 
Yes sir indeed. Wishing you the best and speediest of recoveries. (Do everything you're supposed to.)
 
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