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Source: NBC News
The Afghanistan veteran, who wears an eye patch, hopes surgeons got to a detached retina in time to save his vision.
U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, will be "effectively blind" for about a month after he was rushed into emergency eye surgery to treat a detached retina, the lawmaker revealed on Saturday.
The eye patch-wearing Crenshaw, 37, recently noticed "some dark blurry spots" in his vision before an ophthalmologist on Thursday "discovered that my retina was detaching," the two-term Texas Republican said in a lengthy Twitter post.
"This is a terrifying prognosis for someone with one eye," he wrote. "The prognosis I received on Thursday is obviously very bad."
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rep-dan-crenshaw-says-he-will-be-effectively-blind-month-n1263726
His full statement... (images, not text, so no transcript)
Link to tweet