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Today's plan didn't involve having needles stuck into my eyeballs, and while it was not as bad as you might imagine, I do not recommend the experience

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@mjg59 That was hard just to read! How the heck do you not flinch as the doctor gets close with the needle?

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@VE3RWJ @mjg59

Note that you literally can't see anything that close to the eye. Normally the reason you reflexively close the eye and flinch is that something touches your eyelashes; I'm not sure if you'd have any reflex if something touched your eye without touching eyelashes.

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@robryk @VE3RWJ Oh I could definitely see it if I tried to

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@mjg59 @VE3RWJ

Huh. I just took a piece of black sewing thread (should be about as visible as a small gauge needle, I'd guess) and managed to poke myself in the eye with it without noticing anything other than slight distortion in field of view in the process. When I hold it hanging down from my eyebrow, I can't notice it's there at all unless it moves.

Do you think this is somehow unrepresentative or that I'm different?

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