My Pathway to the Light: Overcoming Legal Blindness

By Jane Bradley

The author was legally blind before she began a long journey (from 2010 to 2015) that included seven surgeries on her eyes to heal her visual impairment. After she had endured five surgeries, she was given another devastating diagnosis which sent her into a downward spiral of darkness and depression. She describes her journey through those dark days and candidly reveals that she had counseling to help her get back on track. Then she had two more surgeries on her eyes. Today, her vision is greatly improved, and she wants to share her inspirational story with others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jan 19, 2017
• ISBN: 9781504373210

Jane Bradley

Jane Bradley has received a NEA Fellowship and several other awards for her fiction. Her collection of stories Power Lines, was published by the University of Arkansas Press and listed as an Editor’s Choice in the New York Times. She is also an award winning playwright, and is currently teaching creative writing at the University of Toledo, working on various writing projects, and traveling whenever she has the chance.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-7312-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-7321-0 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017900658

Balboa Press rev. date: 01/18/2017

CONTENTS

1 The First Diagnosis

2 Adjusting to Contacts

3 Frequent Eye Examinations

4 A Dream Vacation: London

5 Adjusting to Visual Impairment

6 What Kind of Bug Is That? And Why Can’t I Catch It?

7 My First Two Surgeries

8 Leaves

9 My Second Cornea Transplant Surgery

10 My Second Cataract Surgery

11 Emergency Surgery

12 I can see again!

13 Another Devastating Diagnosis

14 Anger, Fear, Grief, and Depression

15 My Two Glaucoma Surgeries

16 Recent check-ups

17 Another eye problem

18 Living