I would have QV, but although the physical damage, according to the eye specialists I had to see for way too long and way too many damnably unpleasant examinations under the slit-lamp, has healed, my eyesight is not what it once was. And one eye was already bad, after a couple of childhood accidents with things that went 'boom' when I used to play about with that area of chemistry (although long-since retired, not in chemistry altogether of course, as anybody who knows me here knows, but with regards to explosives, long retired, for over a decade), plus once getting caustic in my 'good' eye, albeit not much of it thank fuck, most of it having reacted already, during a GHB synthesis as a kid, whilst just beginning to earn my wings. Childhood mistake, rapid exotherm whilst trying to shorten the duration of the saponification reaction of gamma-butyrolactone to GHB sodium, using an aqueous solvent mixture, so as to be able to evaporate the GHB solution more rapidly, hit me in the eye, and although washed out and compared to the pig-caused accident with a torrent of far, far stronger bases, in addition to hydroxides (and having no relation to GHB), and powerful enough to , hitting me at an upwards angle, to push the goggles up my head off my eyes, then forcefully blast the jet of pressurized searing-hot corrosive alkalis into the other eye..that did some lasting damage, and my eyesight, even after the cornea had the corrosive alkali-melted and superheated, pressurized dry steam jet-burnt portion heal again, it is no longer what it once was. So I did look, I just did not see what was there, until it was pointed out as being there, and my going back and looking harder.
Just didn't see it at first read, due to the small font.
