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Archive for June, 2012
Being a blind person who climbs mountains – that’s like being a Jamaican bobsledder; the two just don’t seem to go together, Erik Weihenmayer acknowledges. But, in fact, the opposite is true.
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I mentioned, in my first post, that I’ve attended a number of VISIONS conferences. And yesterday, like most of my experiences in years past, was a roller coaster of emotions. There was the usual anxiety of just maneuvering around and through crowds, the exasperation from not being able to see the faces of the people I was talking to, much laughter and even a few tears.
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Overcoming the Challenge of Getting Vision-Saving Treatments to the Retina
The diameter of the human eye is only about an inch, but for people with retinal degenerations, it can seem like a million miles.
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Paul Karos, a renowned airline-industry analyst and financial executive, spoke very movingly about his life and career at today’s welcome luncheon at VISIONS 2012 in Minneapolis. Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at the age of 8, he struggled, at first, with the realization that he’d eventually lose his vision. But then he came across two influential people, including Gordon Gund, FFB’s co-founder and chairman, who helped him realize that he could achieve great things.
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When the VISIONS 2012 conference began yesterday, the Foundation’s Science Department’s intensive work had already begun. On Wednesday afternoon, we put 15 members of our Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) in a meeting room at the hotel under lock and key. For the next 24 hours, we gave them only bread and water, forbidding access to friends and loved ones, and, perhaps most Draconian, we cut off their wi-fi access.
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