A man was strapping goods onto a motorcycle when the rubber bungee cord he was using struck him directly in the eye, leaving him with a uniquely deformed iris
For an entire week, the man had pain in his left eye as well as blurred double vision. Finally, the 48-year-old, who requested anonymity, visited National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei.
A brief physical examination by Dr. Wei Li Chen and Dr. Chia-Chieh Hsiao, physicians and researchers in the hospital's Department of Ophthalmology, revealed left eyelid bruising and an artfully, if painfully, distorted left pupil.The eye's single opening, the pupil is an aperture through which light travels to reach the retina, a thin layer of tissue lining the back wall of the eye.
The patient sat behind a slit lamp so his doctors could perform a more thorough inspection of his injured left eye. The slit lamp, ubiquitous in eye doctor offices, is the clunky tool that requires you to rest your chin on one support and place your forehead against another while your uncomfortably close doctor peers through a microscope into your eyes.
Dr. Jeff Pettey, an assistant professor at the University of Utah's John A. Moran Eye Center, added BB guns and exercise bands to the list of items that can cause an injury like this:"A young flight attendant used exercise bands when she traveled, and her eye injury resulted in severe eye trauma and a blind eye.
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