Losing one eye - what's the standard medical care received?

[lin]

Googled - 'medical care for eye loss', 'first aid eye injury' and various other searches with similar terminology which didn't get me where I needed because it mostly centred on eye loss through disease, or eye injuries that weren't severe enough.

Cut for, ah, squicky subject matter.

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[cdozo]

https://www.google.com/search?q=Penetrating+Ocular+Trauma&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs

[serpent_849]

this happened to my uncle years ago, but i'm not close enough to him to ask. he has an ocular prosthesis - btw maybe that's a better search term?
be sure to research the future consequences too. for example, my uncle recently failed to get the job he wanted, supposedly because of this.

[citizenofzozo]

FYI - modern medicine is pretty astounding in this case. I know someone who was drilling without wearing goggles, the drill bit flew off and hit him in the eye, and after a few years of various forms of care mostly involving special contacts and eye drops and, more recently, a (failed) retinal transplant (followed quickly by a full corneal transplant) he's on the path to getting back to normal vision. I don't think he ever spent long in the hospital, either. To my knowledge, the most he was put out was after the recent transplant, when he had to lie on his back for a couple weeks and no lifting and such.

[syntinen_laulu]

These days the favoured course of action is to try to keep the eye if at all possible, even if its function is irrevocably ruined

[starlite_gone]

I was recently researching this actually and this is what I found, along with links to sites that have photos. The term you need is 'enucleation' for removal of an eye. I have too many notes so I had to split this comment in two

[starlite_gone]

PART TWO INFORMATION

There was also one teenager on a military site forum I found who said that he'd been fired from his jobs before because people learned he had one eye. He had stopped telling people about it and they assumed he just had a lazy eye and would get hired, but then later when they learned the truth he would suddenly "not be needed anymore." Whether there are extenuating circumstances to his situation, I don't know, because there are protections in place for those with disabilities, however we all know there can still be violations of peoples' rights regardless of said protections.

RESOURCES:This is a really good blog entry by a woman who lost an eye-- she has visuals to show how she puts in her artificial eye: http://preppymeetsredneck.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-giant-reveal.html... )

[starlite_gone]

I have absolutely no connection to the original poster and I'm just passing by (sorry for the Anonymous), but GOSH !
Kudoes to you for all that research, and for supplying to readily !
Thanks, I learned a lot of things today.

[starlite_gone]

Thanks :) (And no problem on the anon) I found it a little bit difficult researching this topic myself at first as well, until I figured out what the term was I needed, and then it was easier. Once the research has been done, may as well share it, right? :) It might help others and save them some time in the process.