SouthernGeneral6512
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There are a number of heartbreaking posts about retinopathy tonight so perhaps it's worth remembering that this is one of the golden times in scientific history with so many new treatments about to break through :thumbup:.
It's so difficult to have surgery on the optic nerve because unlike most other tissues in the body it doesn't repair itself I mean can you imagine getting your appendix removed if the wound in the skin and on the intestine never actually healed :sick:. But hopefully we will soon be able to replace what nature omitted :clap:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/ ... -blindness
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17748165
It's so difficult to have surgery on the optic nerve because unlike most other tissues in the body it doesn't repair itself I mean can you imagine getting your appendix removed if the wound in the skin and on the intestine never actually healed :sick:. But hopefully we will soon be able to replace what nature omitted :clap:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/ ... -blindness
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17748165