Posted on 04/12/2024 4:52:44 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Immediately after Monday’s solar eclipse, the number of people searching Google for eye-related injuries jumped while one doctor in New York City says she treated a surge of patients with eye pain.
"I had several patients come in panicking saying ‘I don't want to go blind,’" Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, a New York City-based double board-certified doctor tells Fox News Digital. "I couldn't believe it, people actually looked at the eclipse without protection."
Doctors and eye specialists had been warning the public for days not to look directly at the sun, but apparently, some did not heed the advice.
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My apologies. I wasn’t being snarky. It’s just that I’ve had extensive work done on my eyes over the last few years by a top flight Opthamologist and I know more about the eye than most folks should. Plus, the nit-picker in me couldn’t let it go. =;^)
Stupid is supposed to hurt.
Special “Don’t look at the sun” category of the Darwin Awards.
And once upon a time, “stupid” went into a movie theater thinking no one could see him...
It didn’t seem snarky. Biology is not exactly my thing so I’m used to being corrected in that department.
From “A Walk On The Wild Side”
Join me as I bring you the total solar eclipse from Monday April 8th 2024 in the city of Dallas where the totality phase lasted 3 minutes and 50 seconds. This was my 2nd total solar eclipse experience after seeing the Great American Eclipse of 2017 from Casper in Wyoming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOy-21FCu1Q
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