Can a fall down a flight of stairs or from a second-story window be enough to cause temporary blindness?
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I'm writing a novel too. Good luck with yours. You are in luck I am a nurse. Yes if you hit the back of your head there are nerves over there that have to do with sight. Not sure if it is temporary or not though.
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You are fine as long as your vision is correctable to 20/20 with glasses or contacts. I have -6.50 in both eyes and I passed my flight physical.\nYour weight is fine I have a friend who is 6 foot 7 and weighs about 60 kilos, and he is a commercial pilot instructor.
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hmmm...well if your shoes aren't very good or you step on a birdie, you can get a twisted ankle.  a birdie might get smashed into your eye and that's no fun.  the coach of my school's badminton team told us that a  girl in her old team had to go to the er when a birdie was smashed into eye and shattered her contacts.  ouch.
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Number one on the list would be a broken bone; generally a finger or ankle. Secondly would be eye injury; dirt or foreign material in eye.
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You need to see an Opthalmologist,not an Optometrist.\n    An optometrist can not treat the injury as an Opthalmologist can.\n    You could have some serious problems either with your corneal or your the iris of your eye.\n    Either way you could have an infection /inflammation that left untreated could cause some serious problems down the road.\n    Should there be nothing wrong,it is better to be safe than it is to be sorry......We only get 2 eyes and we have to protect them.
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If there's any question about how badly hurt the\nemployee is, then call for medical advice.  It's\nthe right thing to do from both a moral perspective\n(ie. you don't want to permanently damage someone\nby moving them if they have a spinal injury) as\nwell as from a legal perspective (ie. you don't\nwant to end up with a lawsuit).  \n\nIt's my opinion that if someone doesn't immediately\njust "get back up" on their own, then they *ought*\nto be checked out by a doctor (because the injury\nis obviously more serious than just a normal trip-and-fall).
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My grandpa fell through the roof of a two-story building during a fire, after he came home from WWII, and died.  He loves telling that story.\n\nBy the way, he was dead for almost 2 minutes.
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Get an evaluation for supralase eye surgery (Evals are usually free) and check with your recruiter about whether the Air Force allows it.  Supralase doesn't create a corneal flap; so I believe it will be acceptable.  I don't believe you can wear glasses as a pilot.  You should also be aware that there are height requirements.  Both being too short OR even too tall can disqualify you from that M.O.S.  Again check with your local recruiter.
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i think so... but there is a chance you can come out blinde...\n\nduh its eye surgery\n\nbut like yeah im sure its safe if you get a good doctor\n\nnothing is 100% safe when you think about it\n\njust dont think that you can go blinde if the doctors makes an uh oh
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fall on purpose after they throw you in the air
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NO. JUST DO IT UNTIL YOU NEED GLASSES.\nYOU WILL BE FINE.
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it can either increase the speed of the fall by reducing the air resistance or decrease it by creating more air resistance. think parachute and missle.
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Probably not... unless you got 'em right in the eye or something... and then they got an infection from the wound... and then didn't seek proper medical attention.\n\nOnce dropped, the penny will accelerate until it reaches terminal velocity, which is not all that fast (much slower than say the velocity of a bullet as soon as it's fired from a rifle).  At terminal velocity, the downward force from the weight of the penny exactly equals the upward force from generated by air molecules passing by the surface of the penny (friction, and some increased air pressure in front of the penny).\n\nThis upward force is small:  You can lift a penny with your own exhalation (breath).  This indicates that the terminal velocity of a penny is also small.  So, it won't be going very fast when it hits the pedestrian.
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No, don't worry, that could never happen.  The worst thing would be, maybe, a piece of dust or something could get in your eye from the rushing air while on the ride, but the contacts cannot get to the backs of your eyes.
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The following assumes the plane is in the air and high enough to kill you!\n\nAfter around 10 seconds (c1000ft) you will be falling at c120mph - although there are a handfull of cases of people surviving what are reported as 'free-fall' landings, they are usually under partial failures of a canopy or a main/reserve wrap.\n\nI watched a girl 'go in' under a main/reserve wrap - I would reckon she was doing c30mph when she hit ... way off the 120mph you would do with nothing.  Fortunately she survived.  Imagine a car hitting you at 120mph!\n\nI suspect that the tandem incident in an answer above is either an urban myth or involved a partial malfunction - even if the jumpers landed on their backs (required for instructor to be underneath) the deceleration trauma would be fatal at the nearly 200mph a tandem reaches (faster due to twice the weight and the same surface area - physicist please do not flame me I am right ... this is why tandems deploy a drogue chute long before the main).\n\nIt is pretty likely someone will suggest aiming for water - this DOES NOT work.  Hitting water is pretty much like hitting concrete due to waters inability to get out of the way at these sort of speeds.\n\nBottom line, unless you get rescued in mid-air by other jumpers jumping with you (has happened a few times!) or, as you suggest, jump without one, you have an almost nil chance of survival.\n\nThe best advice if you jump without one or have a double failure is to tie your shoelaces together - it wont help but it will take your mind off the problem!\n\nBlue skies, black death =8-)\n\n\nDrop me a note if you need any more information\n\n\nADDITIONAL - response to other answers (good debate folks)\n\nWith regard to an answer above I have also heard or hitting trees etc as helping but only where the speed was already low due to a partial malfunction - documented case of a guy surviving by falling through the roof of a convent and another into very deep snow.  Ditto on the 'relaxed' posture.\n\nOpening you chute 'a couple' of seconds before impact is probably an exaggeration as it needs (say) 4 to deploy fully (reserve maybe 3) - as soon as deployment starts you will decellerate massively but you need it open for it to be borderline 'safe'.  BTW if you pull low on a drop zone and survive you are unlikelly to be jumping there again!\n\nWith regard to the chair idea ... em not unless you are a cartoon character :-)
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I hope your daughter recovers soon.  \n\nThe outlook on recovery from eye injuries is good: one in five patients with a ruptured eye globe, a serious injury, may continue to have excellent vision and no apparent signs of perforation.\n\nPostoperative management includes preventing infection, suppressing inflammation and controlling pain. \n\nAlthough no data exist supporting the use of systemic antibiotics after an open globe injury, it's common practice to administer three days of IV antibiotics, followed by 11 days of oral antibiotics. Oral ciprofloxacin has been shown to cross an intact blood-vitreous barrier in appreciable concentrations.\n\nDaily follow-up should include determination of visual acuity, IOP and wound integrity and configuration of the retina (by ultrasound if it isn't visible). If needed, the patient should be referred to a vitreoretinal specialist. Close attention should be paid to corneal wounds, as they can leak when corneal edema decreases. \n\nFollow-up also should include counseling. It's often necessary to repeat conversations that occurred before the operation, as patients and families forget what was said in the hectic, stressful setting of preparation for emergency surgery. Advice from social workers and spiritual support, if appropriate, often are helpful. \n\nIf there is no hope of visual recovery in the injured eye, the initial postoperative phase is a good time to remind the patient and family about the risk of sympathetic ophthalmia. At this institution, it's often the practice to have the patient sign a statement documenting his or her understanding of the risk and choice not to proceed with enucleation, should that be the decision. Finally, polycarbonate glasses must be prescribed, and the patient must be urged to wear them at all times.
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Also when your not suppose to wear them and you have perfect sight may mess them up and make them weak or if your not wearing perscribed glasses to you will make them weak..