Republican Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw will be “effectively blind” for a month after emergency surgery to reattach the retina in his eye, NBC News reports.
Crenshaw lost his right eye in 2012 IED attack while serving as a Navy SEAL in Afghanistan. Crenshaw got an examination from a ophthalmologist, apparently not Rand Paul, when he began to have “dark, blurry spots” in his field of vision. The ophthalmologist diagnosed with a detaching retina and repaired it through surgery.
“This is a terrifying prognosis for someone with one eye,” he wrote. “The prognosis I received on Thursday is obviously very bad.”
“The surgery went well, but I will be effectively blind for about a month,” Crenshaw wrote. “This is why you’re not going to hear from me for a while. I likely will not be conducting interviews and likely will not be posting on social media, except to give updates on my health and recovery.”