Wednesday, February 3, 2010

What could cause someone to lose their eye and need a false one?

For example a degenerative disease or accident.What could cause someone to lose their eye and need a false one?
It can be caused by a number of things. Ocular tumors (cancer in the eye) can result in the person losing their eye in order to stop the cancer spreading.





Certain injuries can also cause a person to lose their eye and then they will require a prosthetic eye. Generally, any injury that causes the eyeball to rupture would result in thisWhat could cause someone to lose their eye and need a false one?
My Dad's job required that he cut metal and steel.





He was watching a job in progress and raised his goggles.


The workman continued cutting the pipe and shards of steel cut his eyeball.





He lost the eye and wore a glass eye for the remaining 35 years of his life.
My husband used to have a co-worker who had glaucoma. He put off getting it treated for so long that he ended up losing the sight in one eye completely. He eventually had that eye removed because the pressure inside it was causing him intense pain.
Or cancer in the eye that caused it to have to be removed.

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