Visionary Solutions of Virginia

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Visionary Solutions is starting a new program that will help people who recently experienced vision loss to find resources. We are looking for a name forthe program. If anyone has ideas for a name for the program please comment. The possible names we are considering now include: Second Sight, next chapter, and adapt, but if you have other ideas please send them. There are two groups of people who are blind or visually impaired: (1) people who are blind since birth and (2) people who experienced vision loss later in life. People born blind come to accept their situation. However, those who lose their vision have to learn new coping skills to adjust to the change and mourn the loss of vision. People usually think of vision loss as a strictly medical problem. However, it has profound social implications if you can no longer perform your old job and cannot drive. I had one of the best eye surgeons in the country perform a cornea transplant for me, but she forgot to mention that if the surgery was not successful I would loss vision in my right eye. During my follow up visit lasting about one minute see checked my eye and found the transplant had not attached itself to the other parts of the eye. She then said I no longer needed to use eye drops, because I would never recover any vision in my right eye. My eye doctor did not many any resources or suggestions as to how I should adjust to having vision in one eye. Actually, there are many resources out there, but eye doctors (even the best in the nation) do not give referrals or suggestions about how to deal with vision loss. Due to the lack of knowledge about options, people who experience visio

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