Personal Narrative: Life After Surgery

A medical definition of vision impairment is a sine qua non that prohibits 20/20 vision in one or both eyes (Bowman, Bowman, Dutton & Royal National Institute for the Blind, 2001; Vision Australia, 2015; Webster & Roe, 1998). Examples of vision impairment include, cataracts, which has the lens inside the eye increasingly cloudy; albinism, which is passed down genetically affecting clear vision and causes sensitivity to bright light; optic nerve damage, which affects field of vision as those nerves controlling vision are disrupted; macular degeneration, where parts of the retina that control colour and fine details are affected; retinitis pigmentosa, which is an ongoing reduction of the field of vision available and nystagmus, where the eye flickers involuntary (Bowman, Bowman, Dutton & Royal National Institute for the Blind, 2001; American Foundation for the Blind, 2015; Vision Australia, 2015 ; Baton Rouge Regional Eye Bank, 2015). John suffers from retinitis

Paul Fisher has had glasses for at least half of his life. The cause for most of the story was he looked at an eclipse, but that wasn’t the case. We later figured out it was his brother Erik. The effect of Erik was glasses. Having glasses caused some not so good things to happen to Paul. All together, Paul’s glasses fit perfectly in the center of a cause and effect chart.

As a golfer, there is nothing worse than having bad eyesight. To fix this, Tiger had laser eye surgery in

Retrolental fibroplasia is caused by the disruption of the growth of blood vessels in back of the eye which leads to the person’s retinas to detached (Pub Med Health). For some people, retrolental fibroplasia has been temporary but this was not the case for Wonder. Even though he was blind from birth, it was not an obstacle for him to overcome. While growing up, Wonder was optimistic and refused to let his disability get in the way of “seeing”; according to Stevie Wonder himself, he states, “In my mind, I can see all of these things in my own way, in the manner that blind people can see them” (Brown 7). If anything, his blindness opened up his world to a different type of judgment and vision in which everything is left to Wonder’s magical interpretation.

Louis became blind by an awl that slid and injured his eye. It got so infected it left him blind.

Stevie Wonder is blind because he has a disease called Retinopathy of Prematurity. ROP is a blinding disease that mostly effects babies born prematurely. The blood vessels in premature babies become abnormally large. Scar tissue begins to develop in eyes. When the scar tissue begins to contract, the retina will detach from the eyes. When the retina detaches from the eyes, ROP occurs. The most common treatments for ROP are Laser Therapy and Cryotherapy. These treatments can help prevent vision loss. During Cryotherapy, doctors use freezing cold temperatures to quickly touch spots on the eye's surface that overlie the retina. During Laser Therapy, doctors burn away the periphery of the retina that doesn’t have blood vessels. During

But the awl slipped and stabbed him in the eye. He then became blind in that eye. The now blind eye got an infection and it spread to his other eye making him completely blind. He did very well in school, but he thought that it was too easy, he wanted a challenge and to read books, so he went to an institute for the blind. But the

In the United States of America on its own has had 140,893 cases reported in May, June, July, and August in the year 2014. Twelve percent of the 140,893 cases had surgery to remove an eye. Forty percent of the surgery amount they ended up going blind or losing their sight. This

Diego’s eye turned from red to purple and blue. It looked like a black eye with the eye being very purple and blue. He cannot even see anymore with his right eye now. His mom calls her trusty friend that is a doctor to help out her son Diego. Diego is in pain and can't talk with a raspy voice.

Imagine waking up one in total darkness. Your eyes are open but you can’t see anything. All you smell is medicine and all you can hear is machines. Calling for somebody to explain what’s going on, you sit up, feeling the rough hospital bed. At last you hear your mom telling you what happened, you had an emergency surgery and now you're permanently blind.

Losing one’s eyesight may be a huge emotional blow for the affected person and his or her family

Humans depend on all their sense to function in life and many take them for granted. A recent article details the several health conditions that cause blindness and how individuals are reaction to it. Given the importance of sight, Jane E. Brody educates the reader on the subject in a recent article called “The Worst That Could Happen? Going Blind, People Say?” Brody listed conditions such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and cataracts as the primary disease that cause blindness. At the same time the article encourages education and early intervention to prevent such condition.

A few doctors at the Cincinnati Eye Institute diagnosed the man with a bacterial infection that was quickly destroying his cornea, the outer layer of protection for the eye. If he hadn’t of had contacts, then the bacteria may not have had the opportunity to incubate. The extended wear contact lens that the man was wearing only got taken out every week to clean. Although these

I looked into the physics of the eye itself and into corrective lenses because I wear glasses. The human eye is a very complex piece of anatomy. Like a camera, the eye is able to refract light and produce an image that can enable someone to see.

A cataract scatters light as it passes through the lens, which stops a defined image from reaching the retina of the eye. Unlike a normal eye that has light passing through the transparent lens, a cataract causes the lens to be hazy. As a result, the image striking the retina will be blurry and the vision becomes emulsified. The range of visual impairment depends on how cloudy the lens is. According to MedicineNet.com, the extent of the visual disturbance is dependent upon the degree of cloudiness of the lens (Dahl, Sheil, 2014). Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness worldwide and are especially common in older people. The protein that makes up the lens begins to cluster together causing the clouding of the lens as people age. Over time, the cataract usually grows larger, ultimately resulting in the lost of sight.