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Originally Posted by Flieger
How did you scratch your eye? And what causes the blindness?
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I scratched my eye on Tuesday. Don't know how. It happened early in the morning and the only thing I can remember doing is washing my face when I woke up. Maybe got some of my facial cleanser in my eye?
And my blindness in that eye happened over a period of about 7 months until I was blind for about a year. Then I got my eyeball scraped twice and it kept the psycho cells at bay for about two years. Don't know what caused the cells to go psycho. My eyesight was getting worse so I went and saw my ophthalmologist. He saw something "funky" on my eye and said he wouldn't touch me until I saw a cornea specialist. I saw two of them before I settled with this one. When I first started seeing them, my eye was just fuzzy. As they tried to figure out what was wrong with my eye (steroids and every antibiotic under the sun), it only got worse, until I was legally blind in that eye. That is the year I learned how to snowboard, surf, and got my motorcycle license. Thought I would never get the chance if I waited. I have the same weird cells in my left eye, just not as bad. I finally switched to this doc and he was more aggressive. Decided to scrape my eyeball... Take off the weird cells and hope it grows back normal. First time didn't work. Second time, worked to an extent. Most of my vision came back except for a very small part of my periphery. And that's where we have been hanging out for two years ... until now.
That's how my Porsche story started. I originally was saving for a motorcycle. When I lost my eyesight and it came back, was too scared to try and ride a bike but could handle a car better. In comes the idea of restoring my dad's Targa...