EH>That would certainly qualify as immobilizing, Lou.  BRRrrrrr .  Blind
EH>for two weeks!  How'd ya fly your computer?  
     Luckily, for me, there were no Personal Computers in those days
(summer of 1962).
     After all was said and done, they decided it wasn't anything that
would, or could, heal itself and I just lost the sight in the eye.
Managed to get a waiver to continue flying, but it used to "tick" me off
every time I had to go to the hospital for a check - the ward crew would
always "volunteer" me to feed one of the patients that just lost his
sight.  Without depth perception, it was a lucky thing some Colenel
didn't get the majority of his meal shoved up his nose.  I used to
manage to "beg off" and use it as a learning experience for the patient.
Sooner or later, he was going to have to feed himself and he might as
well get used to as soon as possible.
     Had a friend (who I met in a hospital) ding up one of his eys
pretty bad when he went through the floor of a PA-18 (1/4 inch plywood).
He didn't realize anything major was wrong until he got rescued
(accident was on Big Lake up in Alaska) and got up on the dock.  One eye
had been all but cut out and was hanging by the optic nerve bundle.  He
could look at someone and was also seeing the floor of the dock at the
same time.  They got him patched bacg together, he got his waiver and he
went back to flying C-123's with the Alaska Guard.  He, the Air Adjutant
General for the State and the rest of the crew all got killed a month
ofter the big earthquake.  They had flown a bunch of reporters dodwn to
Valdez and when the plane took off, it was seen to enter the clouds and,
a few seconds later, come out of the clouds and fly nose first in to
Valdez Arm - not too far north of the Exxon tanker accident site at
Pinnacle Point.
     Lou.
 * OLX 2.1 TD * Young at heart; slightly older in other places.
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