a vision for liberty
Changing her one morning in early 2013, the sun beaming over her face, Dwayne noticed that Liberty wasn’t closing her eyes in the glare. A visit to the specialist confirmed his fears. Liberty had been born with two rare optical defects: in her right eye, microphthalmia, where the eye is undersized and malformed; and in the left, a chorioretinal coloboma, meaning that her retina never fully developed.
“As a father, you don’t know how to deal with it,” says Dwayne. “She was our first child. You never expect something like this to happen.”
The consequences were profound. Liberty is blind in her right eye and only has extremely limited vision in the left. Due to the small size of her right eye, Liberty needs to be
