Can I See With My Prosthetic Eye? - Does My Fake Eye Have X-Ray Vision? Do I Have a Bionic Eye?

Does my prosthetic eye have x-ray vision? Can I see in the infrared spectrum? Is my artificial eye a bionic eye? Um, nope. It's just a decorative piece of acrylic. Like a giant contact that is opaque. Fake eyes are cool, but they cannot "see" anything. But they ARE very expensive.
On February 22nd 2022, I had my left eye surgically removed due to ocular melanoma, a rare eye cancer that affects about 2500 people a year in the USA. This video documents my recovery and healing after enucleation.
Because of the large size of the tumor (16mm wide by 7mm deep), the closeness to my center of vision and my retina detachment due to fluid leaking from the tumor, I was a poor candidate for brachytherapy ( radiation plaque). Radiation damage would had left me functionally blind in that eye along with probable cataracts and glaucoma.
Once I knew I was removing my eye (enucleation) I bought an eye patch to practice one-eyed living. I quickly discovered that I had full depth of perception with only one eye.
I bought a pair of swim goggles and blackened out the left frame. Then I waited for the sun to go down. I I caught my first wave easily and surfed like I had two eyes.
I knew then that everything was going to be fine. One eyed living would be grand.
But losing the eye is the easy part. The hard part is the lifelong risk of metaization in the liver and lungs. That's what makes this cancer so deadly. It likes to spread in the blood and is particularly fond of taking up residency in the liver.
There are no cures at the moment. So getting metastization is a game of whack-a mole where you keep treating the lesions while they keep trying to come back.
As of this date, July 4th, 2022 I am cancer free.
You can visit my Facebook page to follow my journey and see my awesome photos of sunsets, sunrises, moons and astral.
/ original.clay.butler
For more information about ocular melanoma visit:
/ acureinsight
acureinsight.org/
Prosthetic Eye by the Magic Hands of Steven Young
www.stevenryou...
My Ocular Oncologist who skilfully removed my eye
stanfordhealth...

[@simoneb4177]

My friend just had his eye removed due to eye cancer. He's been very stressed about what a prosthetic eye looks like, how to take care of it, and how to place it it, etc., this video somewhat calmed him. Thank you!

[@thehaguy]

Dude!
Your video just popped in my feed.
The thumbs-up "freeze frame" is hilarious!
When you flicked your eye out you slapped me in the face!
Love it!
Now I want to go back to your illustrator illustration and coloring tutorial and draw some odd faces.
Do you still draw, Clay?
Thanks for sharing your process with cancer
Fuck cancer!

[@claybutler]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the freeze frame. I'm definitely still drawing. Still have my design and branding business. Right now, obviously getting eye cancer and having my eye removed, has been my latest interest. I'd prefer not to have cancer of course, but it's always quite fun to learn something new and kind of break it down into its essence and then communicate that to others.

. I can remove and replace my eye with just one hand. Years of practice has taught me this.👍