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 Article link 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 a...