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🗓️ 7 May 2024
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A 9-year-old girl in Hawaii suddenly loses vision in one eye, and nobody knows why. And by the time she gets an answer, it might be too late to save her eye at all.
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0:08.4 | Download the app today. In an optic surgeon stood over his patient, a nine-year-old girl. |
0:17.0 | In an operating room in Los Angeles, California, |
0:20.0 | an optic surgeon stood over his patient, a nine-year-old girl. |
0:23.4 | He lifted his pair of specialized forceps, which are kind of like tweezers, |
0:27.9 | and he opened up the two blades sliding them carefully into either corner of her |
0:32.3 | eye socket. |
0:33.6 | Then he gently grabbed on to her eyeball with these orseps, |
0:37.6 | and slowly he pulled her eyeball out of its socket |
0:41.4 | until he heard the pop of air and the squish of soft tissue, which told him the eye was now fully dislodged from the socket. |
0:48.1 | Now only the thick optic nerve still attached the eyeball to the girl's skull. |
1:01.0 | The surgeon turned the eye over until he was looking at the back of it, and there he saw a hard black mass on the inner part of the eyeball. He touched the mask gently. |
1:03.0 | It was so thick that for a moment the doctor wasn't sure how he was going to remove it. |
1:08.0 | He needed to use enough force to get it off his patient's eye, |
1:11.0 | but it would be very easy to overdo it and cause serious damage. |
1:15.9 | So he had to proceed with extreme caution. |
1:19.4 | With an even smaller set of forceps, the surgeon pinched the black mass and slowly began to tease it off the |
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