This is a great blog post sent to us by Bridget after her work here. Paul Bridget: I first heard about ocularists back in Year 10. Working at the local bakery, I was talking to a customer about how I
On Saturday, eighty people turned up for a fun-filled afternoon of ten pin bowling. Jenny originally suggested we organise the day for teenagers who can be more reserved about their artificial eye. While we opened the day up to people
Last week, we were fortunate to have a work experience student visiting us from Melbourne. Bridget is in her first year of the Orthotics and Prosthetics course at La Trobe University. Bridget heard about us – the brother and sister
Jan contracted a melanoma of the iris in her right eye ten years ago. After nine years of surgery and treatment, she made the mammoth decision to have her eye removed. Jan talks about what she feared most at that
Sara was trying to fix a fence on her family’s farm when a wire strand sprang up and hit her in the eye. She was only eleven years old at the time. Her story takes us through her weeks in
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,
On 19 May this year, the Australian Ocularists Association got together for a meeting in Palm Cove, Queensland, which I attended. The Ocularists Association has a website, but it’s still in the early stages of development. This was one of
Hospitals are the immediate providers of physical care to patients facing surgery to remove an eye. They focus on post-operative care, including pain relief and initial care of the eye socket after surgery. But that’s where it ends. The patient