Who Cares About the Blood? How's the Eye?
Friday August 29, 2008
Our eyes are very important to deaf people. We depend on them so much because for us, communication is so visual. So this morning, when I fell and hit my head on the side of a dresser, cutting my forehead and part of the area around my eye, when Bob saw me sitting there with blood streaming down my face and plenty of blood around the eye, his first worry was not how much blood was covering me and getting on the floor, but how was my eye??
After I was cleaned up and bandaged, we found that my eye had indeed narrowly escaped injury. There were cuts in the eyebrow area and also below the eyebrow. Too close for comfort. No stitches needed at the doctor's office, but I do have surgical glue covering the cuts around my eye and also the middle of my forehead, making me look like a cousin of Harry Potter.
But thank goodness my eye escaped more severe injury. I almost lived a deaf person's nightmare.
Related on About.com: Emergency Eye Care - Eye Injury Treatment, from About.com's guide to Vision
Comments
Glad you are OK.
Second what MZ said above.
Even though my little boy is very reliant on his auditory skills when wearing his processor, he would not be a happy camper without his complete vision either, he relys solely on that obviously when he’s not wearing his processor. Glad you’re okay!
Whew! Glad you did not injury in your own eye which it is important for you to keep eye sight.
Almost 30 years ago, My mother in law lost her sight eye were injuries hit by chair with a post. she dropped something and the living room were too dark. she pick up .. did not see chair with a post hit her right eye. Different injuries are too risk.
Aw! My stomach tightened up until I read that your vision is okay and that you’re on the way to recovery. It’s scary how many times we have near misses or potential dangers around our homes. Stay healthy!
As a deaf person, my vision is very important to me. I also have a son who has ushers, he is slowly losing his vision and is hard of hearing. He also has lost more hearing in the last few years. It is my hope that there will be a cure/treatment before he loses even more vision.
Thank goodness your eye is okay. Wishing you the best for a quick recovery and no more reruns on this, okay? yikes.
when I came home from food shopping with my mother and my brother then my brother and I brought the bags of food from BPM (Shaw’s)then my brother forgot to put light on at living room and I fell down at the edge of lamp table in the living room and cut above my left eye (eyebrow) as lot of bleeding but good thing ir was not hit my eye thank god. my eyes are very important to see things including reading the lips since I was 2 yeears old as talent/excellant.
It was the summer of 1970 when I was 14 years old it was accident at home after food shopping.