A call to arms Speech
by: Mark Paul S. Paroli
I want to share a patient of mine in resources for the blind who is a low vision; technically, a low vision is someone who, after surgery and eyeglass intervention, is still visually impaired to everyday activities.
She had Stage 3 Retinopathy of Prematurity, and after her eye surgery, She could only read the biggest letter "E"… if it was 1 feet closer to her face and could only read as big as the headline of a newspaper at near, at 10 words per minute. She was then advised to learn braille and was sent to a school for the blind. Last Monday I was able see her and her mother, her mother told me she can now read the black board 10 feet away using a telescope and could read fonts as small as size 12 with a prescribed magnifier. And they told me she was transferred to a mainstream school. All of that after her low vision rehabilitation with me.
I'm telling all of this because of its relationship to my advocacy. I remember marielle's mother texted me during my birthday, greeting me and saying "Maraming salamat po sa pag bigay ng pag asa sa aming pamilya". Giving hope to their family…
