I just found out that one of my cousins has lost use of an eye. I know it could be worse but he has a lot of hard adjustments ahead of him. He still has a young kid at home. I feel horrible.

My wife lost use of one eye due to cancer malignancy. The toughest adjustment was depth perception. She knocked over a few glasses reaching for them and had to learn to drive all over again, but the adjustment period was remarkably short. The human brain is pretty amazing.

Losing an eye is a tragedy for sure but it is far from being the end of the world.

I remember back in my first year of junior high a kid transfered in that had just lost an eye in some kind of shop accident at his grandparents. He was an avid trout fisherman so we became friends pretty quick. He had a big adjustment with his depth perception at first, but by the end of that school year he was doing everything we all did just fine. I do remember he was an awesome first baseman. He always wore an eye patch.

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My wife lost use of one eye due to cancer malignancy. The toughest adjustment was depth perception. She knocked over a few glasses reaching for them and had to learn to drive all over again, but the adjustment period was remarkably short. The human brain is pretty amazing.

Same with my dad. Depth perception was a major issue and he had quite a few falls after losing the use of the eye.

My daughter in law only has one eye. She has a high end fake eye on the other side. If she doesn’t tell you about it you would never know.
I knew her for close to a year before i found out and that was only because my son mentioned it.

My father lost an eye from an injury when he was only three years old. Loss of depth perception was perhaps the toughest challenge. But since the loss occurred at such a young age, life with one eye was all he knew, and he compensated quite well. I understand it took some extra effort for him (administratively) to join the Army and serve in the European Theater during WWII.

His was fortunate to have a high-quality prosthetic eye and maintained muscular control for the movement of it. Generally, the only people who knew he had one eye were people he told. Or occasionally, those who were the target of one of his practical jokes involving his glass eye.

His biggest lifelong fear was his concern about of the possible loss of his one remaining eye. A rare thought for those living with two healthy eyes.

Best of luck to your cousin.

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My secretary and a judge I know both have lost the signal sending of one eye. They are functionally blind in one eye because the optic nerve doesn't send anything to the brain. Their eyes track normally and in parallel but there's only a single image transmitted to the brain.

Their biggest problems are depth perception. The DMV has no restrictions on their driving. The judge still goes to the shooting range and my secretary still reads books all the time, although audiobooks are easier.

The biggest takeoff on depth perception loss is going down stairs. My secretary won't do it unless there are handrails, with elevators preferred. She's slow when she encounters things with raised elevations, such as curbs and a raised section of concrete in a sidewalk has caused her to trip more than once.

I watch a you tube channel called One Eyed Customs on a regular basis.

The guy is a fabricating almost genius.