A Magic Carpet Ride Through Hell After the first visit with Dr. Tsang, I realized I was going through the five stages of grieving for my vision, with denial being stage one. Bargaining and anger were supposed to come next, and while I don’t recall much of that, I’m sure there are people close to…
A New Hope With the help of my very supportive parents, we found that one of the world’s leading doctors in genetic eye diseases—a man named Dr. Stephen Tsang—was located a mere half hour away at Columbia Medical Center. We paid him a visit, and he and his staff confirmed it was definitively RP. They…
How It All Started To Change It was the spring of 2017 when I started noticing some abnormalities in my vision. I’m not a morning person. I don’t wake up so much as attempt to compel my body to drag me toward the coffee machine. As that first pot brewed, I’d sit on the couch…
I’m Going Blind. It’s still crazy to me to write that out. Please bear with me as I tell my story. I promise it gets better in the end. But, I’m a photographer. It was my senior year of high school when I fell in love with photography. My humanities teacher, Mr. Wright, did a…