Cataracts

Seeing through is rarely seeing into - Elizabeth Bibesco

Cataracts
Cataracts

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Seeing Really Is Believing

I had forgotten all about Charlie by the time the darkness started closing in.

We had been friends as kids. I liked to make him laugh. Once, hanging out in the biology lab after school, I borrowed the bow from Charlie’s violin and used it to play a hand saw — a weird vibrating music like something from a synthesizer or a theremin. I remember playing “Over the Rainbow” for him, while he looked on with equal measures of horror and wonder.

One time, he explained to me how he’d taken a household clock apart, gear by gear. “I like disassembling things,” he said, “and then putting them back together.”

Eventually, Charlie went off to Brown, and I headed to Wesleyan.…

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 Seeing Really Is Believing

Indeed, I had an early onset case of cataracts, a buildup of protein in my eyes that was keeping the light from getting in. I remember a sense of shock when I was diagnosed. I’m not crazy! I thought. The world really was getting darker.

Seva

285 million people in the world are blind or visually impaired. 80% of all visual impairment can be avoided or cured through sight-restoring surgeries, glasses and medical treatments.

EyeHealthWeb

Symptoms of cataracts can vary from one person to another, depending on the type of cataract they have. Symptoms for all types of cataracts may include blurry vision or glare from car headlights, especially at night. Sunlight or indoor overhead lighting may seem to be too bright or cause glare. You may notice that bright colors appear dull. You may also notice everything seems to be slightly yellow.

Mission Cataract USA

Mission Cataract USA offers free cataract surgery to people of all ages who have no means to pay. Thanks to the dream of one eye surgeon in Fresno, California, one day a year on Mission Cataract Day, hundreds of people throughout the United States are given the gift of sight at no cost to them or to Medicare, Medicaid or private insurance.

Cataract.com

The success rate of cataracts surgery (defined as having no serious complications and resulting in improved vision) with today's advanced methods and ultra-modern equipment is at an astonishing 95%. And, the risk of becoming blind with surgery for cataracts removal is extremely low.

LiveScience

While the use of new eyeglasses, magnifying devices and brighter lights may stave off cataracts' effects on vision for a period of time, surgery is the only treatment.

MedicineNet

Advanced age is a significant risk factor for the development of cataracts. A family history for early development of cataracts, the presence of diabetes, tobacco use, and prolonged exposure to sunlight are also risk factors.

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