Lloyd Daniels lost an eye in an horrific accident at work. He was teaching someone how to change a tyre when the tyre lever flew up into his face. He experienced many emotions after the loss of his eye, reaching
Maurie Enright was three-and-a-half years old when he lost his right eye in an accident with a piece of tin while he was playing. From then on, everything was against him: his father died not long afterwards, the family lived
The ArtEyes social group – a support network for wearers of artificial eyes and their families – is having its next event in July. If you like sport, but don’t want to get sweaty, and enjoy cheering your team on and distracting your opposition,
The purpose behind our website and blog is twofold: to provide information on all aspects of artificial eyes; and to encourage the sharing of other people’s experiences. To be certain that we are giving our customers what they want and need,
We thought we’d go off track slightly to bring up another weird and fascinating phenomenon that we’ve stumbled across. It concerns the wearing of eye patches. When people who have lost either one or both eyes wear an eye patch over the
We have been working towards publishing an eBook on stories of eye loss, and now it is here. These stories come from our clients, with each one giving insight into the emotional experience of losing an eye. What these stories reveal
Having an old artificial eye replaced with a new one is not always a straightforward process for everyone. There can be some big blocks to actually picking up the phone and making an appointment to finally get rid of that
When someone has lost an eye, the ability to perceive light has also gone. Without the retina, cornea, rods and cones – the integral structures within the eye that detect and send images to the brain for interpretation – there is
Most of the clients we see have lost one eye. But we also have clients with two artificial eyes. Bilateral eye loss is most commonly due to three conditions: retinoblastoma – cancer of the eyes which usually occurs in children under
We explained in an earlier blog how we go about getting our blog posts written. Without Julia tossing questions at us and jotting down our responses while we work, we might not get around to doing our posts. Julia is
