On this site, I’ve had a lot to say about monocular vision and how to cope with it. I’ve also had some to say about my own journey, including watching one of my eyes, which had a congenital defect, fall apart as I grew older. It was a stressful time in my life watching that…
For most people, eye care is important. When you only have one functioning eye, eye care is crucial. You don’t have the same margin for error that other people do, so you have to take extra care of the one eye you do have. There are certain things you can do easily, like protective eyewear,…
I was born with a deformed optic nerve in one eye. At a certain point in adulthood, several things went wrong with that eye, all within a short period of time. My retina detached, my eye permanently dilated, I developed glaucoma, and I started using a prosthetic contact. At first I used a simple Air…
You appreciate something more when you don’t have it. I know many people who were athletes in their youth but did not fully appreciate their athletic abilities until those abilities had declined because of age. I know people on strict diets — including someone on a feeding tube — who have a much greater appreciation…
As I wrote a while back, being blind in one eye changes how you drive. Because of a reduced range of vision and diminished depth perception, there just are some things you can’t do as easily as someone with vision in both eyes. Fortunately, there are things you can do as a driver to cope,…
I’ve been legally blind in my right eye for my entire life, but for most of my early life, well into adulthood, I didn’t have any medical problems with the eye. That all changed dramatically after my retina detached and I developed glaucoma. At the outset I found myself taking four drops twice a day….
This is a sixth in a series of posts on my odyssey with a dilated eye. I’ve tagged all the posts in the series here. I was born legally blind in my right eye. At a certain point, my retina detached, my eye fully dilated, and I developed painfully high eye pressure. The good news…
This is a fifth in a series of posts on my odyssey with a dilated eye. I’ve tagged all the posts in the series here. So … I had a blind eye that decided to dilate. And then when I had it treated, it went bloodshot and painful and even more dilated. So I finally…
This is a fifth in a series of posts on my odyssey with a dilated eye. I’ve tagged all the posts in the series here. It’s funny how one problem can seem like a big deal, until another problem comes along and pushes the first problem onto the backburner. That’s especially true when the second…
On this blog I talk about the downside to being blind in one eye, but I also try to look at the upside, too. Here are a few ways in which being blind in one eye has, I think, helped me become a better person. I’m More Grateful Being blind in one eye has a…