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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Correct, nothing can move, not your lungs, not your eye lids, nothing. So he went very blind from staring at the sun for 30mins straight while people did cpr until ambulance arrived

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Yep.

They couldn't close their eyelids.

Better blind than dead.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Too bad no one had a shirt or something they could've covered their eyes with...

[–] SpermHowitzer 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hindsight is 20:20. It may seem obvious when you’re sitting here reading about it, but if my buddy was suddenly paralyzed I’d probably be too preoccupied with keeping his blood moving and oxygenated to have the extra processing power to think about whether his eyes needed to be closed.