After multiple tests and surgeries, his doctors were forced to remove Imhof’s right eye as a result of the damage.
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“It was decided that the best chance I had to live a normal life was to have my right eye removed and have a prosthetic one put in,” he wrote in a lengthy Instagram post. “This decision was not an easy one to make but to me it seemed like the right one so on Tuesday afternoon I went forward with the surgery.”
Here’s how the injury happened, according to Philly.com:
Imhof said this has been the hardest week of his life and he is grateful he still has vision in his left eye.
The 22-year-old was a second-round pick by the franchise in 2014.
A photo posted by Matt Imhof (@matt_imhof48) on Jun 30, 2016 at 9:44am PDT
