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Anderson Cooper Temporarily Blinded During Trip To Portugal
TV Newser ^ | Dev 4, 2012 | Alex Werpin

Posted on 12/04/2012 1:35:35 PM PST by Beaten Valve

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper was in Portugal last week shooting a story for CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” and he ended up being temporarily blinded for 36 hours.

He recounts the harrowing experience on his daytime talk show “Anderson Live.” In a nutshell, he was shooting out at sea, and sunlight reflecting off of the water burned his retina:

“I wake up in the middle of the night and it feels like my eyes are on fire, my eyeballs and I think oh maybe I have sand in my eyes or something. I douse my eyes with water. Anyway, it turns out I have sunburned my eyeballs and I go blind. I went blind for 36 hours.”

He took the picture above after visiting the doctor.

Video after the jump.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: andersoncooper; andersonpooper; cnn; lavendermafia; pinkeye
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To: Mister Da

Oh, when I was a very little kid my father was a welder and I remember the warnings from my mother. Those warnings worked very well for me, LOL. Thanks for reminding me - I can see my father in my mind’s eye even now with that face shield...


61 posted on 12/04/2012 3:17:56 PM PST by donna
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To: Beaten Valve

Don’t play around with seamen without wearing sunglasses, Anderson...


62 posted on 12/04/2012 3:25:09 PM PST by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked..." - BHO)
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To: Beaten Valve

Was he revved up like a d*uc#e?


63 posted on 12/04/2012 3:29:55 PM PST by rfp1234 (Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon.)
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To: Beaten Valve

I guess he wasn’t on the road to Damascus. Unfortunately.


64 posted on 12/04/2012 3:42:02 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: Beaten Valve

I heard a one-eyed monster saturated him with some sort of gelatinous microbe.


65 posted on 12/04/2012 3:45:35 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: Beaten Valve

Too bad he didn’t fall off his horse riding on the road to Damascus. Might have done him some good.


66 posted on 12/04/2012 3:46:43 PM PST by COBOL2Java (GOPe: Already prepping for their 2016 loss - Jeb Bush!)
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To: Vaquero

hahahahaa!


67 posted on 12/04/2012 3:55:30 PM PST by visualops (artlife.us)
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To: tired&retired

My roommate and I did this during a sunny spring ski day when I was 19 . Can’t believe I’m posting about my stupidity .


68 posted on 12/04/2012 4:35:36 PM PST by katykelly
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To: tired&retired

My roommate and I did this during a sunny spring ski day when I was 19 . Can’t believe I’m posting about my stupidity .


69 posted on 12/04/2012 4:35:36 PM PST by katykelly
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To: smokingfrog

Well done!


70 posted on 12/04/2012 4:42:26 PM PST by Third Person (I'm in my prime.)
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To: Revolting cat!

That’s a good one, but the old saying that I was thinking of cautions one that too much, uh, self-gratification will cause blindness... lol...


71 posted on 12/04/2012 4:46:39 PM PST by fivecatsandadog (Reality ruins everything.)
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To: Beaten Valve

This is really no joke and isn’t funny. Many early navigators were blind in one eye from taking sun sights by looking directly at the sun, a big reason indirect viewing devices, like sextants, were developed. Also, whenever there’s a solar eclipse, many people injure their retinas by looking directly at the sun.


72 posted on 12/04/2012 6:16:07 PM PST by libstripper
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To: Beaten Valve

Maybe he poked himself in the eye with another man’s.... you know....


73 posted on 12/04/2012 8:34:42 PM PST by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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