hi folks, this is jeff...i found this site yesterday at work while i was looking up something fot a CVA-stroke patient of mine...its a website that gives those of us with normal vision and idea of what people with altered vision are seeing....i was surprised to see retinal detachment in there...some people probably know that Noah has dealt with retinal detachment...oddly enough, and as best as i understand, oxygen is posionous to the growth of developing eyeballs...so noah, at 24 weeks was still growing his eyeballs, but he was also out and about in this big bad world, so he needed to be on oxygen, and a lot of it (well there are different theories on how much preemies and mircopreemies need, and we were at a place that think he needed more)...so Noah had a few laser eye surgeries in his first 5 months to keep the retina from fully detaching...anyhow, here is a picture that shows what it may be like looking thru Noahs eyes...crazy...i never could really understand, or never got a good description of what it may be like for Noah, but this is maybe more than what i had figured...i had figured things were blurry, and maybe his glasses could help with that...i didn't realize there would be full on black outs, which i wouldn't think glasses could help with
http://visionsimulations.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=172
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This is interesting Jeff. Tayden also had two laser ey surgeries and a vetrectomy as well to stop a retina detatchment in his right eye. They said he had peripheral vision loss and some distortion, but I had no idea what that meant for him. He seams to see ok all things considered, but he does look at thinks funky sometimes. Now I know why. Thanks for the insight.
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