In a blog post in January this year, Back at school after eye surgery, we raised the delicate issue of how much information parents should give to school staff and peers when their child is either returning to, or beginning school with an
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
The diagnosis of retinoblastoma is devastating for parents. Their young child is in danger from cancer. There may be a sense of urgency. Surgery to remove the eye may be necessary. Loretta McIntyre was five years old when a specialist
It’s only natural for children to feel anxious the first time they come to see us to have an eye fitted. They’ve often been through a lot of treatment and procedures in hospital, and now face yet more attention. The
I’ve just come back from Malaysia and the Middle East where I spread my time between Kuala Lumpur, Bahrain and Dubai. Bahrain is familiar territory to me: I’ve had six trips there over the past twelve years, making eyes for clients
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
Jean Hartz was a young mother with three children when she was diagnosed with a tumour in her eye. Humour and a matter of fact approach to life helped her deal with her eye loss, as she tells her story
We love stories and we hear lots of them. Some of our clients had their first artificial eye made over eighty years ago. They have wonderful tales about early ocularists and how it was to have an artificial eye. This
In my Darwin clinic I sometimes come across people who have had the same artificial eye for decades. There are many reasons for this. Sometimes it is because people live in a remote region and do not know what services are