It was identical to another Friday night time: After a protracted, busy workday, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni went out for dinner and drinks to welcome the weekend. When he wakened the following morning, he instantly observed some blurry imaginative and prescient. (*3*) he shares on this episode of the mindbodygreen podcast. As the times went on, the blurriness remained, and Bruni headed to the attention physician to lastly test it out—perhaps he may snag some eye drops.
“My eye doctor tells me that it looked like something serious and that I should go see a neuro-ophthalmologist,” he recounts. “On that visit, I was told that I had probably had a stroke of the optic nerve, that I would never see normally out of my right eye again, and that I was going to live forever more with the significant risk of the same thing happening in my left eye…I woke up with strangely blurred vision, and five days later, I was basically told I might go blind.” Technically, he was recognized with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), and it occurs to roughly one in 100,000 Americans.
As he grappled with this analysis, Bruni discovered to reshape his personal priorities and acquire knowledge from others going via related invisible sicknesses—as he shares in his ebook, The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found, practically going blind really helped him see extra clearly. Here’s how Bruni discovered to handle his situation: