If you want to play some challenging pool, try it with a gas bubble floating in your eye.
Out of the blue, a couple weeks back, my retina in my right eye somehow got a tear and it caused it to start detaching. When I went to the hospital, they tried to close the tear with the laser, but it was too big and they had to inject a gas bubble in my eye. The bubble expands about four times its original size and then floats around on the top of the inside of your eye.
Then you have to stay in whatever position is needed for the bubble to "float" over your tear and it pushes the retina back against the wall of your eye and seals the tear. In may case, I had to lay on my right side for about a week so that the bubble would float against the top left inside of my eye. A couple more zaps of the laser was required on my eye, but it looks like my retina has reattached.
The side effect of the gas bubble is that it will stay in your eye for around three months. or so, until it finally goes away. In my case, the bubble covers about 1/4 of the inside of my eye.
When I am looking straight ahead and my head is level, the bubble is on top of my eye and above my pupil, but since everything in your eye is mirrored, to me, the bubble looks like it is sitting on the bottom of my eye.
It is like you are a human "level". When you turn, the bubble keeps turning with you to stay whichever way is "up". It looks like you have a balloon filled with blue water floating inside your eye.
Today was the first time I tried playing pool since I have recovered for about a week and it was an "experience". When I'm standing up looking at the shot, everything looks somewhat normal, but when I bend over to shoot the bubble sometimes gets right in front of my pupil on my right eye and it looks like you are looking through a water balloon. I am right handed and I had to really concentrate on using my left eye to stay in focus.
Initially, I started out totally sucking, but after an hour, or so, I started doing a lot better. I wouldn't say I was shooting my best, but I was finally figuring out what I needed to to in order to keep the bubble in check. One thing I noticed that was kind of "cool", if there is such a thing as something "cool" with a bubble in your eye, was that I immediately could tell if I moved my head while down on the shot. If I ever moved my head just a "hair", the bubble would move...just like the bubble in a level. I may actually be "trained" to keep my head perfectly still by the time this bubble finally dissipates.
I hope my eye gets back to where it was before the tear, but for the mean time it is a bit blurry still and the bubble may be causing some of it. The light goes in my eye and then reflects off the bubble and I think it causes quite a bit of distortion and it blocks some of the light.
Time will tell.
Now that I know what to expect, I think I may start out a little better next week, since I won't have to spend as much time trying to figure out how to aim with my left eye.
Out of the blue, a couple weeks back, my retina in my right eye somehow got a tear and it caused it to start detaching. When I went to the hospital, they tried to close the tear with the laser, but it was too big and they had to inject a gas bubble in my eye. The bubble expands about four times its original size and then floats around on the top of the inside of your eye.
Then you have to stay in whatever position is needed for the bubble to "float" over your tear and it pushes the retina back against the wall of your eye and seals the tear. In may case, I had to lay on my right side for about a week so that the bubble would float against the top left inside of my eye. A couple more zaps of the laser was required on my eye, but it looks like my retina has reattached.
The side effect of the gas bubble is that it will stay in your eye for around three months. or so, until it finally goes away. In my case, the bubble covers about 1/4 of the inside of my eye.
When I am looking straight ahead and my head is level, the bubble is on top of my eye and above my pupil, but since everything in your eye is mirrored, to me, the bubble looks like it is sitting on the bottom of my eye.
It is like you are a human "level". When you turn, the bubble keeps turning with you to stay whichever way is "up". It looks like you have a balloon filled with blue water floating inside your eye.
Today was the first time I tried playing pool since I have recovered for about a week and it was an "experience". When I'm standing up looking at the shot, everything looks somewhat normal, but when I bend over to shoot the bubble sometimes gets right in front of my pupil on my right eye and it looks like you are looking through a water balloon. I am right handed and I had to really concentrate on using my left eye to stay in focus.
Initially, I started out totally sucking, but after an hour, or so, I started doing a lot better. I wouldn't say I was shooting my best, but I was finally figuring out what I needed to to in order to keep the bubble in check. One thing I noticed that was kind of "cool", if there is such a thing as something "cool" with a bubble in your eye, was that I immediately could tell if I moved my head while down on the shot. If I ever moved my head just a "hair", the bubble would move...just like the bubble in a level. I may actually be "trained" to keep my head perfectly still by the time this bubble finally dissipates.
I hope my eye gets back to where it was before the tear, but for the mean time it is a bit blurry still and the bubble may be causing some of it. The light goes in my eye and then reflects off the bubble and I think it causes quite a bit of distortion and it blocks some of the light.
Time will tell.
Now that I know what to expect, I think I may start out a little better next week, since I won't have to spend as much time trying to figure out how to aim with my left eye.
