FADE TO BLACK. Tom Arnold had seen the cinematic device countless times in his nearly 40-year TV-and-film career, but this scene wasn’t in the script: At home on the night of January 16, 2022, the vision in Arnold’s right eye went dark as he was waiting for his children to get out of the bathtub. “I felt a curtain come down, and it was black,” the 63-year-old actor and comedian recalls. “I could feel it in my brain, too. I was like, ‘That’s weird.’ ”
The following morning, Arnold drove himself to his doctor’s office, thinking perhaps he had floaters in his eye. The staff told him to go to the UCLA medical center immediately and enter the” Arnold recalls thinking. Most of all, he wondered what was next. “I kept thinking, ”
