Inspirational Stories

CHICAGO—An antibiotic widely used in Africa to treat eyesight-robbing infections seems to help prevent Ethiopian children from dying of other diseases. A study in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association suggests an unintended benefit from efforts to wipe out trachoma, the world’s leading preventable cause of blindness. The World Health Organization has set 2020 […]

A grandfather has described how a massive stroke “miraculously” cured his failing sight, but cost him his ability to speak French. Malcolm Darby, 70, of Oakham, Rutland, had worn glasses since measles damaged his sight at the age of two. But after waking from surgery to remove a blood clot following a stroke last year, […]

“Dai, I want to visit your office,” she said over the phone. “Could you please meet me at Kathmandu Mall?” Leaving my office at Sundhara, I found her on the steps to the mall. “Let’s go,” I said. She recognized my voice and greeted me humbly, “Oh, you’ve arrived!” She picked up her stick and […]

New technology speaks to drivers with cues for driving, making it possible for the visually impaired to get behind the wheel of a car one day, reports Daniel Sieberg.

Elizabeth Troutman is 25 and going blind. She can’t see the sun rise or the stars at night. She hopes to have children one day, but will never know their smiles or their frowns. She rides the city bus uptown to work in the mornings, a pretty woman in high heels, with nothing to show […]

Irv Fine may have lost one of his senses, but it wasn’t his sense of humor. Fine, who is blind, and a group of friends who are visually impaired play a round of golf at the Mill Creek MetroParks Par 3 Golf Course every week. “I’ve been golfing for 10 years now, and I’ve gotten […]

John Parker was officiating at a Topeka soccer league game in 1981 when his life changed forever. He graduated from Hayden in 1979 and played amateur soccer with the intention of trying out as a goalie for a pro soccer team because he was too short to play basketball, his favorite sport, in elite leagues. […]

Hard labour, as a lifestyle choice, has more to recommend it than I could have guessed. From those first few hours of holding Sophia, my firstborn, curled on my forearm learning to breastfeed, to the most recent round of pre-breakfast Ride a Cockhorse, bouncing two “fine ladies” on my tired knees, I have been a […]

Who turned on the lights? After spending three years in the dark, a 90-year-old great-great-grandfather from Oregon who had been declared legally blind claims he’s suddenly regained much of his sight. “God never treated anybody as good as he’s treated me,” Marty Alvey told the Daily News, three days after his vision inexplicably returned. “When […]

He can’t see very well. She can’t see at all.  Not exactly recruiting poster material, this couple. Nevertheless, Jenine and Kent Stanley of Minerva Park are members in good standing of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. They’re proud to be of service to their country. “I think being part of the U.S. military, it’s an […]