I'd just deal with it and I definitely wouldn't just start over. As has been said he'll lose that affliction when revived. (Interestingly, according to a recent game I played pretenders that lose both eyes recover one of them when revived.) Sometimes the games in which unlucky things happen early can turn out to be very interesting games. An early handicap like this would probably doom you in a competitive MP game from what I've heard but you can always try to make a comeback against the AI.
