Week 4: Senses and Stuff
Hello all once again! Venturing across the strange plains of the internet, I scrounged around and discovered an article on the complexities of vision and how scary it is to lose one of our main senses.
When Seeing Stars Through Your Eyes Isn't a Good Thing
Walking down the stairs with his trusted dog, stars started showing in the top right corner of a 66 year old's vision. These symptoms persisted and worsened as time progress, leading him to visit his ophthalmologist and seek treatment. There was an injury and inflammation in the macular region of the retina caused by infection, also compounded by the growth of a small cluster of abnormal blood vessels that threaten to completely take away his vision. However, this was able to be treated with the use of intravenous antibiotics and medicine injected monthly to prevent the blood vessels from growing further. Through this treatment, his vision was able to recover from 20/800, meaning he could only see stuff 20 feet away that others would be able to see 800 feet away, all the way to 20/40, vastly imrpoving his life.
The thought of this potentially happening to me is quite terrifying and I want to take better care in maintaining my health in order to keep my senses. Losing grasp over reality and not being able to navigate my surroundings compels me to eat healthy and pay attention to how I act thruoghout the day to keep my vision.
I got a score of 2, where I missed a color in between the hues of purple and red!
Looking at it, I can see that some people like it, but it is most certainly not for me. I can eat it, but I am also certainly not going to.
Harvard, Blue Light, and Sleep
It quite interesting actually; since I have blue-light glasses that I wear during night-time homework assignemnts, I've always known about the negative impacts of electronics on my sleep. However, I now know that it disrupts the production of melatonin and ultimately harms our sleep schedule.
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