Happy Holidays from Saving Sight!
Happy Holidays from Saving Sight!Cynthia captured the crisp, winter scene pictured as our 2018 featured holiday artist. Happy Holidays! Thanks to our staff, partners, volunteers and supporters of our work in eye donation, more corneal recipients like Cynthia are able...
Cynthia’s Story – A Photographer’s Vision
The vibrant colors of a flower in spring. Seeing a bumblebee buzz and dart through the garden. The crisp outline of a frozen snowflake on the windowpane. All of these sights are just a few of the many beautiful moments Cynthia has captured...
Jason’s Letter of Thanks
Jason's Letter After Jason received a cornea transplant, he asked his sister to help him write a letter to his eye donor's family to thank them for their selfless gift. Jason and Mistie on her wedding day. Jason was her husband’s best man. Jason's Letter of Thanks...
Regaining Sight after 23 Years
For 23 years, Angela was 100 percent blind in her right eye. Thanks to the generous gift of sight from an eye donor and the work of her surgeons, she has regained her sight! When Angela went in for what was a routine eye exam to get new contacts in 2017, her eye...
Corneal Transplants Allow Avid Reader to See Clearly
Some of Rosalia’s fondest memories of her mother revolve around reading. “Mother was a reader,” says Rosalia. “She always said a day she didn’t get to read anything was hardly worth it. She would sit down 30 minutes a day to read. It was important to her, and she...
Anita’s Story
Not long ago, diminishing sight threatened to take away Anita’s ability to read and see well enough to sew her quilts. An active and proud grandmother, she and her husband recently retired to Columbia to be closer to their children and grandchildren. “We are loving...
Three-Time Cornea Recipient Continues Working Thanks to the Gift of Sight
Working in higher education, David’s job requires him to do detailed, number calculations. Because of the generous gift of sight from three donors, David can continue his work. “It is vital that I am able to differentiate between 5’s & 6’s and 3‘s and 8’s,” said...
Restored Sight Allows Cornea Recipient to See Nature’s Beauty
Watching deer graze in the valley and geese land on her pond were just a few of the beautiful sights of nature Pam enjoys at her country home in Lebanon, Mo. Those sights mean more to Pam now than ever before after the hereditary eye disease Fuch’s dystrophy...
Corneal Transplant Allows Truck Driver to Keep Driving
Thanks to the generosity of a donor and their family, Larry received the gift of sight through a corneal transplant in October 2015 to correct his vision and allow him to continue his occupation as a truck driver.
Cornea Recipient Takes in the Sights During Retirement
Hiking over rough terrain and in cold temperatures is worth it to see the beauty of a glacier. On a recent Alaskan cruise from Anchorage to Vancouver, British Columbia, Katie and her husband hiked at Davidson Glacier in Alaska. “We had to hike over rough terrain to...