My electronics mentor worked at 3M in the 80s. One of his coworkers thought it would be funny to prank him by asking him to look into a piece of equipment with something like a binocular microscope that the prankster had rigged to flash laser light at the sample. (I'm not sure what the equipment was, maybe something to do with chip lithography or looking at the surface of a magnetic platter.)
Somehow 3M was able to get out of compensating him for this workplace injury even though, if an ophthalmologist were to give him an eye exam (he tells me) they can literally read lithography writing (albeit backwards) burned in scar tissue on his retina. IIRC the prankster was never appropriately disciplined either.
Like OP it mostly affects/affected his peripheral vision and he just ignored it much of the time, but as he's gotten older his eyesight in general has gotten worse such that he can no longer compensate for it.
Somehow 3M was able to get out of compensating him for this workplace injury even though, if an ophthalmologist were to give him an eye exam (he tells me) they can literally read lithography writing (albeit backwards) burned in scar tissue on his retina. IIRC the prankster was never appropriately disciplined either.
Like OP it mostly affects/affected his peripheral vision and he just ignored it much of the time, but as he's gotten older his eyesight in general has gotten worse such that he can no longer compensate for it.