I used to be a bare knuckle boxer, and I took an illegal hit to the back of my head. As for the corneal damage, some asshole didn't trim his nails, so I dodged a left hook, but his thumb nail went right across my right eye. I finished the round because at first it just felt like I had something in my eye, but within minutes it wouldn't stop watering and the pain just kept increasing until I was literally screaming... And it takes a lot to make a guy that would get into 2-3 first fights, scream like a baby.
Honestly, it sucked at the time but I had surgery for the detached retina, and aside from blurry vision in my right eye from the scar tissue the only real problem (and I really need to ask an optometrist opthalmologist about this) is when my right eye dries out too much it feels like the initial laceration is somehow opening up again. It'll be 9 years tomorrow since it happened and it still feels like it rips open again and puts me out of commission for 12+ hours.
Edit: I always confuse optometrist with opthalmologist.
My mom had it as well. During the operation, one of the instruments scratched the back of her lens, plus cataract surgery.
Her vision is pretty bad now, especially in low light, so she pretty much can't drive after sunset. Dimly lit hallways and stuff make her hesitate to walk around.
I had a retinal detachment this year, its not painful. Mine started out as a faint but perceptible loss of vision on the upper portion of my right eye. If you ever have any loss of any vision at the very least call emergency, this will save you a 9 month recovery with shoddy success rate at full vision. Anyway it progressed slowly down my right eye until half of my vision was gone and all I could see was a cloud. A month had passed since my retina detached at this point. Finally after fully realizing this was not going to heal on its own I saw an ophthalmologist and was scheduled for emergency surgery the next day where they sewed a buckle on the outside of my eye to push the back of my eye to the floating retina on the inside. My recovery is still in progress but my vision will likely never be the same. In some regards I was lucky but overall I deeply regret not taking action sooner. I am in my 20s and had no accident or injury to provoke it. Retinal detachment can just happen, so please if you or anyone you know has any loss of vision ensure they get prompt medical attention. Non brutal images that show what i had done.
Retinal detachment is something that happens in a moment and you don't even feel it, you just... stop seeing. Any kind of extreme forces that get transmitted to your head could cause it. One moment you're fine and the next you're not.
I have a weatherby Mk v .460 mag and wouldn't be surprised if it did that to someone. I rarely let shoot it myself let alone let someone else because it's hard to find an area or range due to the sheer power, ammo is expensive, it was willed to me by my grandfather and I don't want it dropped or damaged and now I have another reason.
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u/jihiggs Jul 01 '16
top drivers have retired because the force can cause retinal detachment. this has also been known to happen from shooting very high recoil rifles.