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How resilient, really, are our eyes to damage? All this talk of eclipses and eyes has got me paranoid about my own eyes. Now I am constantly paranoid of losing my eyesight or damaging my sight. Can anyone else relate? Whenever I drive, I worry that the sun is too strong and will hurt my eyes. I worry about the slightest scratch near my pupils, and when stuff gets close to my eyes I get incredibly uneasy. Yesterday I was taking off my (normal) sunglasses and I swear I scratched my eyeball on the lens. I still can't stop thinking about it, my eye feels itchy and I'm worried I'm going to wake up tomorrow with no sight in that eye
Does anyone else share in my paranoid? I feel like I could lose my eyesight any minute. Would a "scratch" on my eye, say from a sharp edge, quickly and permanently lead to blindness, or can the eye withstand some scratching?
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Your eye actually heals very quickly from abrasions, as long as it doesn't actually puncture all the way through the lens. Your eye will get scratched throughout your life from stuff like sand getting under your eyelid. Unpleasant sure but it doesn't make you blind.
Unless you just have some really crazy freak accident, the only way for a healthy person to just suddenly completely go blind these days if they do a high-impact sport like boxing or get into a lot of fights where they get punched in the head repeatedly. Detached retinas are horrible.
So basically, as long as you don't live in some 3rd world mudpit where you can't get surgery if you develop cataracts and aren't getting repeatedly punched in the face every day for years, the worst you need to worry about is the gradual reduction in eyesight as you grow old and need to use reading glasses
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