"I Can't See!" — 19-Year-Old German POW Boy Panicked When US Medic Removed Shrapnel From His Eyes скачать в хорошем качестве

"I Can't See!" — 19-Year-Old German POW Boy Panicked When US Medic Removed Shrapnel From His Eyes

A 19-year-old German prisoner named Georg reports to the medical clinic at Camp Carson, Colorado in March 1945 with complaints of "blurry vision" but when Captain Edward Morrison shines a slit lamp into his eyes, he discovers microscopic metal shrapnel embedded deep within both corneas. Georg admits he was caught in an artillery explosion near Aachen six weeks earlier but hid the injury out of a paralyzing fear that doctors would blind him, allowing the metal to rust inside his eyes while his vision slowly deteriorated. Faced with the reality that doing nothing guarantees blindness, Georg undergoes a harrowing procedure to extract the fragments while fully awake, forcing him to hold his eyes perfectly still as a surgical needle approaches his cornea. The tension in the room breaks when Georg panics mid-surgery, crying out "I can't see!", revealing the terrifying psychological toll of an injury that walked the razor's edge between recovery and permanent darkness.