YouTuber Yourrage breaks silence on horror eye injury after getting hit with axe on livestream and almost losing sight
A POPULAR Twitch streamer has broken his silence after receiving a horrific eye injury on a live stream and nearly losing his sight.
Joshua, also known as YourRAGE, was streaming on July 3, when he suffered an accident involving an axe striking his face.
Days after the incident, Joshua, who has more than 1.7 million subscribers on YouTube, shared a video titled "I can't see."
In a 14-minute video, Joshua explained that he went to an ophthalmologist, who told him that the accident damaged his retina and optical nerves.
He started the video at a loss for words.
"I don't even know how to a video like this off, not going to lie," he began.
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"For those of you that don't know, I got into a freak little accident a couple of days ago."
Joshua is sitting shirtless in a dimly lit room with an eye patch over his right eye.
He started the stream by giving viewers some context about the situation.
"I'm going to explain where I'm at right now, what I was thinking at the time...I still ain't watch the video, I can't even watch the clip."
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The streamer detailed how his manager warned him against chopping the wood, saying that the wood was too wet to chop.
Despite his manager's warnings, he said he wanted to chop the wood anyway.
"It was my dumba** fault for not wearing any goggles...I wanted to be sexy chopping wood."
Halfway through the video, Joshua went into detail about the incident.
"Long story short - they juice up my eye, they liquify my eye, putting all types of squirting, all type of s**t, all up in my eye," he explained, wearing a patch over the injured eye.
"Like, 10 different drops in my eye. Looking through the eye with the machine; basically said… a lot of inflammation in my cornea."
"But it's like - my retina and my optical nerve, something, that's really damaged."
He explained that his injury was going to take a lot of time to heal.
"It's bad," he said.
Despite the shocking injury, the specialist told Joshua that he "got lucky."
"But he said I am so goddamn lucky that this isn't 100% just GGs to your eyeball," said Joshua.
"He said I better pray to god, I am lucky as hell."
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Not all hope is lost for the future, Joshua's ophthalmologist said he still has a chance to be back to normal in the future.
"His hypothesis, what they're saying is, as the bruising and the swelling, all the inflammation, as that goes down, and as my eye heals, my vision should slowly come back day by day."
YourRage accident explained
YouTuber Joshua, who goes by the name YourRage, got into a horrific accident on July 3.
During a live stream, YouTuber YourRage accidentally struck himself in the eye with an axe.
The streamer immediately told his cameraman to take him to the hospital, claiming he couldn't see.
Joshua's manager had warned him against filming an axe-cutting video after it had been raining for days in a row, but the YouTuber ignored his warning.
"It was my dumba** fault for not wearing any goggles...I wanted to be sexy chopping wood," he said in a video about the accident.
"Long story short - they juice up my eye, they liquify my eye, putting all types of squirting, all type of s**t, all up in my eye," he explained.
"[My ophthalmologist said] as the bruising and the swelling, all the inflammation, as that goes down, and as my eye heals, my vision should slowly come back day by day."