Mother’s warnings are funny things. I once disregarded them as mere superstition or the rantings of mothers trying to get their children to behave. I say “once” because the older I get, the more validity I find in the odd sayings we have all heard…
Your face will stick that way
You’ll poke an eye out
Eat it and don't argue, it's good for you
It's always fun until somebody gets hurt
Now it seems modern medicine and pharmacology have now stepped up to the plate to confirm yet another one…
Stop that or you’ll go blind
I had always dismissed this one as a total load of crap. Somehow I failed to see any connection between my penis and my eyesight. I admit…I do wear glasses now, but I assumed that it was simply the normal process of aging. It seems I could have been wrong all along.
Recently a number of erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra, Levitra and Cialis are being linked to vision loss. Specifically, NAION, or non-arteritic ischemic optic neuropathy, which can cause a sudden loss of eyesight by blocking blood flow to the optic nerve. Which proves another saying…”God gave men two heads and only enough blood to run one of them”.
Unfortunately I have yet to require these drugs, so I cannot blame my degrading eyesight on them. So I must assume our mothers were right all along. I never would have suspected such a link and my Optometrist certainly never mentioned it. So I was going on blindly (if you’ll excuse the pun). I guess there is little I can do about it now, the damage is done. At least they have laser eye surgery. Now if they could only do something about the hair on the palms of my hands.
All these revelations have me really worried now that I have kids. You see, my mother also cursed me by wishing…”I hope you have children just like you”!
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