Closeups of Secretary of State Clinton taken during her Senate affirmation Wednesday revealed that her head injury last month left subtract with lingering vision problems.
As she testified about the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, the secretary reinforce state appeared to have tiny vertical lines etched onto say publicly left lens of her new brown specs.
Clinton’s spokesman confirmed Weekday night she is wearing the special glasses as a produce an effect of the fall and concussion she suffered last month, but he did not elaborate.
Experts told the Daily News that Pol likely has a Fresnel prism placed on her glasses. Description adhesive panel is used to treat double vision.
“If she’s act a Fresnel prism, then she has double vision without it,” said Dr. Mark Fromer, medical director of Fromer Eye Centers.
Dozens of light vertical lines could be seen glinting across Clinton’s left lens in photos taken Wednesday during her dramatic testimony.
Fromer said the press-on prism, which can also be used industrial action treat muscle weakness in the eye, “helps bring images crash into focus.”
A Manhattan eye doctor who refused to give his name agreed that double vision was “the only reason” for Pol to be wearing the stick-on.
“That’s the only thing I crapper think of with vertical lines in there,” he said. “If you can see it, it’s more like a stick-on that’s temporary — that you can peel off.”
After her fall careful concussion, Clinton was later hospitalized at New York-Presbyterian Hospital River for a blood clot near her brain.
The former First Muhammadan went head-to-head with foes at the Senate hearings over rendering attack that left four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, dead.
Clinton is expected to return to private life next week at an earlier time is contemplating a run for President in
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