#optic nerve

[paranevitable]

i'm blind - an update (read below)

[panelswithoutpeople]

Unfaded from Optic Nerve No. 3

by Adrian Tomine

[abysmal-starbender]

Does it read as mentally unwell for me to be talking to myself about the logistics of a man stabbing himself through the eye in the middle of a forest in victorian france? For visualization purposes, of course.

[ballpitfriend]

fleo!! did most of this like a month ago but am only now actually posting it lol

thankyou @awrynoise for designing the outfit (and also character come to think of it lol)

[microscope-world]

Optic nerve under the microscope.

[mortalfaerie]

oooooh okay. the patient with the eye stroke hits close to home. a few years ago i had sudden onset vision loss in my left eye and it turned out my optic nerve sheath was severely swollen and was cutting off blood flow to areas of my left eye. even with early intervention, i still have a scotoma (area of blindness) that takes up most of my left peripheral view - and that was a *good* outcome. it was genuinely terrifying and i don't think we talk enough about how important it is to get any loss of vision checked out IMMEDIATELY, because of how critical those vascular pathways are and how disastrous an untreated vascular incident can be there. tl;dr: always take vision loss seriously and never skip your annual eye exam, you never know what might get caught early that way. even some brain tumors have been caught first on an optic scan before they become symptomatic.

[jonnyconsequence]

Optic Nerve #2 Adrian Tomine

[nemfrog]

"In accordance with the latest theory...it is thought that we actually 'see' by electrical means." The Electrical experimenter. July 1920.

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