Texas Republican Dan Crenshaw ‘virtually blind’ after eye surgery

• Navy veteran lost his right eye in Afghanistan in 2012
• Congressman expects to be nearly sightless for a month

The Texas Republican congressman Dan Crenshaw said on Saturday that he had undergone eye surgery and would be effectively blind" for a month.

Crenshaw, 37, is a veteran of the elite navy Seals force. He lost his right eye and sustained damage to his left eye in Afghanistan in 2012, when a bomb exploded.