With some of the recent posts about people loosing their eye sight, it reminds me of my own. I know what it is like to loose sight. I am partially blind in my left eye. It was an accident from childhood, well more like my dumb brother hit me in the eye with a block of wood. I tend to not think too much about it because my right eye makes up for the blind area in my left. If I close my right eye I can not even read this well with the monitor at arm's length away.

Some have asked, 'what is it like?', 'Is it a black area there?' Actually, no, there's just nothing there. You can see for yourself, because everyone has a small blind spot in each of their own eyes. However, because of where it is in the eye and because of each eye making up for the other, most people don't even know they have it. It's the point in your eye where the optic nerve connects to your eye. To see this you need to choose an eye to look with and close the other eye. Since I can only see well with my right, I'll explain with my right. Close the left eye, using your right hand hold your thumb up in front of you (C) and stare at the tip of your thumb with your right eye. Now, keep staring forward and move your hand to the right slowly horizontally, don't move you eye to look at your thumb, but keep general eye sight of where it is. Eventually, the tip of your thumb will disappear, like nothing is there, not black, just not there. That's what my sight is like, but in my 20/20 area where I need to see and read this.