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My doctor told me I was having mini strokes and had to go to the ER. Sat for 8 hours in the ER . There was a girl there a little younger than me telling them about the same exact symptoms I had. I finally had enough after they told me to wait for the eighth time, and stormed out.
Went home. Woke up blind. I had the stroke in my sleep that night. (1/10, don't recommend).
Then I had to go to three specialists before I could go back to the ER and be let into triage.
So, yeah. This comic is dead on accurate.
Shit. Are you still blind?
One of my eyes has a huge scar in it that takes up half the vision. I basically trained myself to mainly look out of the other eye.
It was interesting to me. You don't realize that being blind doesn't mean you see blackness. You just literally do not see anything. There's nothing to see. It's simply something that does not exist.
The hardest part was the blind part turned into brightness when I close my eyes. So I can't fall asleep to darkness anymore. It's very weird. There's lots of things like that you never expect in life when you're injured.
Could you still imagine things?