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HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
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Photo Title: Soon to open eyes to a bright future!
Submitted by: Monikha T
Category: Amateur
Country: India
Organisation: Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS, New Delhi
COVID-19 Photo: Yes
Photo Caption: A baby of retinopathy of prematurity, picture taken just after surgery to one eye, waiting to be operated for the other eye.
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Photo uploaded from the #HopeInSight Photo Competition on photocomp.iapb.org held for World Sight Day 2020.
Baby Thinh had Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP), a condition that can cause premature babies to go blind, thankfully her mother could seek sight saving treatment at the Orbis supported hospital in Hue, Vietnam.
© Geoff Oliver Bugbee
during The Nightly BedTime Ritual we often like to tell each other Tall Tales, improvising and evolving them with grander and grander plot twists.
if you're relatively new to odin's adventures, the following may seem to be just such a tall tale, but it's as True as True could be.
a few days ago i took odin to his umpty billionth eye exam and we were all quite pleased to hear that his sight has continued its gradual improvement over the past year! his eyesight is 20/30 which is almost normal for a 5 year old ( typically 20/25 ). there's even a chance that he might not need glasses, which i find hard to believe since both of his parents are nearsighted. but even more importantly, his retinas look astonishingly healthy as his eyes continue to grow, which is remarkable given all the scar tissue on his retinas from the surgery that prevented him from going blind.
and so, perhaps, five years later we can think a little less about retinopathy of prematurity. it proved the curse of the nicu to be true and caused an emergency transport to a new, scary nicu and an emergency laser surgery with 1,500 burns in each eye and innummerable eye exams with dilated pupils and bright lights shone in odin's eyes. its effects brought news of possible legal blindness and the day we thought he had really gone blind only to discover he had a late vitreous hemmorhage ( eye filled with blood ) that somehow, improbably, had no associated retinal damage.
perhaps.
Today at around 2:00pm my left eye started bugging out. After two doctor visits and a little bit of panicking it was determined that I have a condition called 'central serous retinopathy' ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_serous_retinopathy ).
Thankfully, it's not serious and will go away in a couple of months, but man - do things sure look strange these days.
Photo Title: Ultra-wide field fundus fluorescein angiography of proliferative diabetic retinopathy
Submitted by: Lucy Francis
Category: Professional
Country: United Kingdom
Organisation: NHS
COVID-19 Photo: Yes
Photo Caption: A patient with proliferative diabetic retinopathy received a ultra-wide field fundus fluorescein angiography test during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Photo uploaded from the #HopeInSight Photo Competition on photocomp.iapb.org held for World Sight Day 2020.
What if you woke up one day and saw the world with blurry eyes? A diabetic could experience a medical condition called Diabetic Retinopathy. Of all the complications that diabetes may cause, this is the one that scares me the most. I had a thorough eye checkup, and thankfully, both my eyes turned out to be ok. I hope that they continue to stay healthy.
There is no cure for diabetes, yet, but until then, we will continue to see far and wide, and enjoy the many sights and sounds that this world has to offer...
HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
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Photo Title: Nomad Smiles
Submitted by: Julie-Anne Davies
Category: EVERYONE COUNTS
Country: Canada
Organization:
Photo Caption: This Nomadic woman with her warm smile had invited is into her small hut for Yak Butter tea. The Changpa Nomads of the Tibetan Plateau are very vulnerable to eye damage due to the harsh high altitude sunlight. They live in an extreme high altitude environment where even locating their nomadic camps can be difficult in the expansive challenging terrain. Increased and ongoing help for these nomads is essential.
Professional or Amateur Photographer: Professional
Country where the photo was taken: India
Photo uploaded for the #LoveYourEyes Photo Competition on iapb.org held for World Sight Day 2021.
Photographer:
One of the many complications in people with diabetes is eye problems. This is my son at his yearly exam to check for any damages to his eyes as a result from high blood sugars. Thankfully, he got an excellent report this year.
HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia
Photo Title: Want to give their premies a better tomorrow
Submitted by: SadiaSethi
Category: Amateur
Country: Pakistan
Organisation: MTI Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar Pakistan
COVID-19 Photo: No
Photo Caption: Mothers of premature babies waiting for Screening of their babies for Retinopathy of Prematurity in Pakistan
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Photo uploaded from the #HopeInSight Photo Competition on photocomp.iapb.org held for World Sight Day 2020.
HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia
HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia
HRH The Countess of Wessex is on a five day visit to India from 29 April to 3 May 2019.
HRH The Countess attended a reception in New Delhi to celebrate the achievements of the The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Initiative in India.
The reception recognised plans underway to create a Vision Catalyst Fund - supporting governments in scaling up eye health programmes.
Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia
Today was my yearly ophthalmologist appointment. They had to dilate my eyes to check for Diabetic Retinopathy. I was kinda hoping this picture would come out fuzzy because that's how I saw things for the better part of the afternoon. hehe
Clean bill of eye health, ladies and gents. 20-20 vision....absolutely clear retinas no diabetes present in my eyes. wooohooo
Mum was coughing quite a lot last night, and was very restless, so we didn't sleep too well. When Mum woke up, she thought there had been an earthquake! She was relieved to find the house was still standing. She was rather confused and weird for a lot of the day, and strangely didn't sleep at all! I was out for about an hour, taking Olive for her diabetic retinopathy screening (which went OK), but Mum didn't seem to have had a sleep. She only had a little breakfast, but had the rest of her food and drink as normal. She doesn't seem to have a temperature, but has felt a bit odd all day. If she's no better tomorrow, I will give the doctors' surgery a call. I hope we both have a better night tonight.
Submitted by: Indra P Sharma
Country: Bhutan
Organisation:
Category: Amateur
Caption: Taking a consent for a women interested to take part in a diabetic retinopathy study
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Photo uploaded from the #StrongerTogether Photo Competition website (photocomp.iapb.org)
Photo Title: Poor health with the probability.
Submitted by: Ahamed Jehad
Category: ♥ HEALTH FOR ALL
Country: Bangladesh
Organization: Cumilla Victoria government College
Photo Caption: There are show some of children playing. And there parents are brickking labour. They’re living under provability.
Professional or Amateur Photographer: Amateur
Country where the photo was taken: Bangladesh
Photo uploaded for the #LoveYourEyes Photo Competition on iapb.org held for World Sight Day 2021.
Photographer: Ahamed Jehad
while playing the Dilation Waiting Game, odin learned that the eye doctor's office can be very fun, indeed, since they have all sorts of bold things to play with.
but eventually the doctor arrived and started shining lights in his eyes; odin used to tolerate the exams quite well, but wowza, not anymore! just in case there was any doubt, now the entire building knows that odin no longer cares for eye exams!
unhappiness about the exam notwithstanding, we're happy to report that he apparently the exam showed that he's just a bit farsighted which is just what you'd like to see ( ahem. ) and any infant. and both eyes show about the same degree of farsightedness, which is also just what you'd expect.
so, maybe just likes looking at the world sideways after all.
somewhat relatedly, as if to keep a lingering bit of doubt in our minds about whether or not we'll someday have to deal with unexpected long term consequences resulting from retinopathy of prematurity - we learned that it's possible that micropreemies who have had ROP will continue to have an increased risk of retinal detachment thoughout their lives. the general lack of "hard" data ( because so few 24-28 weekers with ROP survived long enough to do long term studies ) leads some professionals to recommend the conservative approach of taking great care to protect the baby from the usual bumps and bruises of everyday life ( no small task, for sure ). but others, our doctor included, think that the conservative approach is a little too conserative and aside from doing our best to prevent a "severe" blow to the head, we really should treat him like any other "normal" baby ( leading one to wonder if parents of "normal" babies don't do their best to prevent severe blows to the head ).
hrrrrm. just when i was thinking about cutting back on hovering.
i'm not sure i'll look at a jungle gym the same way :-)
03.06.10
OMG,I actually have marks on the ends of my fingers from the amount of testing I have been doing.......now that really is unheard of for me, never in my 19 years as a type 1 have I seen any marks from testing (The photo is a box of lancets which are the delightful little things responsible for finger pricking and causing the lovely "pepperpot" look to the end of my fingers!!!!)
Since Monday I have tested my blood sugars 23 times......Monday I did 6, yesterday I did 10 and today I have done 7.......so far. This is more than I used to do in an entire month (or sometimes 6 months!!!). In the last month or so since I made the decision to sort myself out I have tested on average 6 to 8 times per day, sometimes more - so why this sudden turnaround?? The promise of a pump can do funny things to a girl.
It's been a looooooong time coming but being told I can have an insulin pump has really made me pull my socks up and focus on what I need to do, i.e. learn to carb count and learn to see patterns in my sugar levels so I can get the insulin ratios correct. I'm still pretty new to all this and have only had one appointment / carb counting 'lesson' with my dietician (the aptly named Mrs. Crisp) so far. I have been told that once she is happy that I am an 'expert' carb counter I will be able to actually get the pump and have the training on how to use it with my pump nurse, so I am determined to get the hang of it all as quickly as physically possible.
In the past I have either not bothered testing or if I have, I have just tested, written the result down in my monitoring diary and then forgotten about it, now however, I am actually trying to see patterns in the results that I'm getting - not that there's often a clear pattern at the moment as things are still quite up and down but the basics are there. I'm thinking this may be something to do with the fact that my levels have been running so high for so long that it will take a while for things to settle down (I hope its as simple as that anyway).
Another major wake up call for me has been the diagnosis of proliferative retinopathy. ("Retinopathy affects the blood vessels supplying the retina – the seeing part of the eye. Blood vessels in the retina of the eye can become blocked, leaky or grow haphazardly. This damage gets in the way of the light passing through to the retina and if left untreated can damage vision" - www.diabetes.org.uk/ - more about this in a future post). Hearing the news that my eyesight is failing was the kick up the arse I so badly needed to finally make me do something about my diabetes instead of pretending it doesn't exist - obviously this includes actually testing my blood sugar levels and reacting to whatever the result may be rather than just testing for the sake of it (or not testing at all).
Ok, so back to testing itself......it's not exactly a fun pastime and it can make your fingers really quite sore at times, as I'm only just finding out, but it is such an important part of treating diabetes. I feel like a bit of a hypocrite writing that to be honest as I've not exactly been what you would call a "good diabetic" over the years. It's almost as if my eyes and ears have been closed for years and now all of a sudden I'm seeing the bigger picture and realising that this thing isn't going to go away no matter how much I try to ignore it. It is a serious condition and it needs a serious amount of commitment from those of us who have it. I know it may all sound a bit like it's too little to late in my case but I really do want to try and reverse some of the damage I have no doubt done to my body over the years and also keep any further complications as far off in the distant future as I possibly can.
P.S. All good results today apart from a couple of highs this morning (although these are actually not that high for me) of 13.8 and 11.3, then it all came good with 6.4, 7.3, 4.4, 4.3 then went a bit too low around dinner time with 3.3 which I put down to the hot weather. Had a couple of mini cadbury's creme eggs ("YUM") and my dinner so we'll see later on what that's done to my levels.
Ooooh, and I have finally got me a sharps container for the first time ever - bit of a sad thing to get excited about but all these things are little steps towards getting things under control and sorted out!!!! :o)
Submitted by: Rajesh Pandey
Country: India
Organisation: Self Employed
Category: Professional
Caption: The Countess of Wessex, Highness Sophie meets the miracle baby Rishita. Rishita was apre-term baby weighing less than 650 gms at birth, In a district town like Nalgonda, a baby weighing just 650 grammes had virtually no chance of survival. She was discharged after 6 months in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Govt Hospital, Nalagonda, India. During the time in the hospital she was also treated for retinopathy of prematurity to save her from blindness.
Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019
Submitted by: Rajesh Pandey
Country: India
Organisation: Self Employed
Category: Professional
Caption: The Countess of Wessex, Highness Sophie meets the mother and her retinopathy of prematurity(ROP) baby during her recent visit to the Govt Hospital, Hyderabad, India
Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019
Dr. Charles Hollenberg Clinician-Scientist Program presenter, Julie Lovshin, "Inadequate screening for diabetic retinopathy despite universal health care: a large, population-based study in Ontario, Canada."
Addressing the 9th General Assembly of the IAPB, presenting the preliminary findings of the Kilimanjaro Diabetic Programme - Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Programme. KDP had a poster presentation at the IAPB on 19th September 2012 Hyderabad - India. The diabetic eye disease screening programme is an avant garde in preventive ocular medicine in Tanzania.
Photo Title: Screening the key step in management of Retinopathy of Prematurity
Submitted by: SadiaSethi
Category: Amateur
Country: Pakistan
Organisation: MTI Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar Pakistan
COVID-19 Photo: No
Photo Caption: Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity done at Eye Department MTI Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar Pakistan
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Photo uploaded from the #HopeInSight Photo Competition on photocomp.iapb.org held for World Sight Day 2020.
Dr. Charles Hollenberg Clinician-Scientist Program presenter, Julie Lovshin, "Inadequate screening for diabetic retinopathy despite universal health care: a large, population-based study in Ontario, Canada."
eric made it through the surgery relatively unscathed, although his eyes are quite swollen.
i waited until two hours post-op to snap the picture because i think it might have been a bit too much to bear for people to see just how puffy his eyes were immediately after the procedure. he also had a severe bout of apnea at about an hour post-op so i wanted to give him plenty of time to recover after turning a deep blue color. i don't think you ever get used to seeing your son turn a deep blue color.
in this picture, he's bright red and quite flushed, which is a side effect of the ketamine.
Some of the tests...
Eye Exam
mfPOP - ANU new eye test
Matrix texture perimeter
Fundus photo
Spectralis OCT
HFA-White perimeter
GDx
with Juliet.. I was one of the many normal eye-sighted participants used as controls..
see jcsmr.anu.edu.au/research/groups/maddess-group-diagnostic...
jcsmr.anu.edu.au/research/facilities/clinical-suites
Professor Ted Maddess from The John Curtin School of Medical Research studies a range of eye diseases. He and his group have invented a machine that accurately maps the visual field of the retina, and also tests the nerve connections between the eye and brain.
Could this invention help diabetes patients? The two researchers got together to find out.
They are exploring whether Professor Maddess’s invention can do these jobs: early detection of diabetes for people at risk, and effective management of the disease by closely tracking its effects.
The technology can find two complications of diabetes related to eyesight: retinal neuropathy, or damage to the retina (which is a neural tissue, an outgrowth of the brain); and retinopathy, where abnormal blood vessels of the retina cause a loss of vision.
Retinal neuropathy seems to precede retinopathy, and finding it could inform treatment decisions and patient behaviours – to prevent more serious damage.*
Yearly appointment at the ophthalmologist to check on status of the laser surgery I had in the mid 1990s for diabetic retinopathy. That one on the right is goo, but the doctor described the scarring (needed to stop bleeding) as a "War Zone"
The diagnosis was great news, return in a year.
On 11 June 2014 at UNICEF House, participants of the Global Partnership on Children with Disabilities learning and advocacy event prepared for a public speaking role about their lives, their disabilities and their dreams of inclusion for persons with and without disabilities.
Kartik Sawhney, 19, was born in India and is the recipient of many prestigious awards for his academic achievements. Currently a sophomore on full scholarship at Stanford University [California, USA] majoring in Computer Science, he is involved with young voices in India advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities. Born with Retinopathy of Prematurity, he has faced many challenges, but he has been proactive about his education and participation in school and social activities.
“When we talk about inclusion most people think it is basically including people with disabilities in mainstream education,” he says. “When I think about inclusion, I think of persons with disabilities actually communicating and participating with other students having the same resources and opportunities to succeed and have a holistic education as others. When I was in high school, I made it a point to participate... I was never told that I could not participate in sports or activities that was not really thought of as suitable for someone who was blind. Rather the teachers who were responsible for the activity were always up for taking up the challenge and devising alternative methods to include me in everything possible.”
“Persons with disabilities have always relied on innovations from others to accomplish the most basic tasks. Can you believe a person with disability actually being an innovator? “Science, technology, engineer and mathematics, these 4 words that have changed the world today are considered to be the four edges of a geometric figure that is not supposed to be touched by someone who is blind or visually impaired. But what happens if someone is really passionate about these subjects and really wants to pursue them? Should they be denied an opportunity simply because the world thinks that these subjects are too visual to be managed by someone who is blind?”
When he was in the 10th grade, he had to choose an educational track… “Everyone around me including some of my friends and teachers advised me to go for subjects including law and music simply because these subjects were far less technical and would not involve any visual inputs,” he says. “I was very confident about my choice and wanted to pursue science, no matter what. I wrote letters to the educational board in India and after 9 months finally got permission to pursue sciences, as India’s first blind student to do so. But that definitely was not the end of challenges for me. I soon realized that science was full of diagrams and other equations that were extremely challenging for me to handle especially because there was no assisted technology in India at that time. How do I go about doing that now? I was shattered and I almost thought that perhaps what people had been telling me before I made this decision were actually correct, and I’d better change my stream.”
“That is when a thought struck me. Who creates technologies? You? Me? Yes, people like us. So what if I cannot buy the expensive technologies that can enable me to study sciences? I can make my own technology. I can help me and other students like me in developing a world to understand science. That is when I came up with a suite of software that I call “STEM Made Easy” which consists of 2 suites, the first [is] a programme called “Audio Graft Describer,” which takes an equation corresponding to a curve and converts it to its audio tonal representation…I’m passionate about music too. And that is when I thought, well, let’s use music to understand graphs. And I came up with this software that uses 21 musical notes and using the variation in the frequencies, conveys how the graph is laid out.
The second software that I created is called: “Verbal Image Describer” that allows users to upload textbooks and then add descriptions for images in that textbook. The main advantage of this software was that [it] reduces the dependence on sighted assistants for understanding images.”
Kartik also came up with an alternative convention along with assistance from his teachers, which supplements the standard convention that chemists use for representing organic chemistry molecules, written in such a way that anyone unfamiliar with the convention can understand it…
“But the main point is that we often associate people with disabilities as consumers of innovation. But people with disabilities can well be producers or generators of innovation as well. What is required though is an opportunity to innovate, an opportunity to experiment, and an opportunity to pursue one’s passions. And who is it that will provide this opportunity? You.
Asked about inclusion and how we ensure that no one is left behind in employment and education, Kartik responds: “It often happens that we have to face insensitivity from the government, from educational bodies, from our classmates too but I think that rather than simply blaming it on the government to do something on our behalf or expecting the NGO’s to do something, we also have an important role to play. Disability is nothing more than a nuisance. You can do pretty much anything that you [want to] do, just show them.
Photo Title: আমার এক টুকরো ফ্রেমে বন্দী আকাশ
Submitted by: Minhajur Rahman Shahin
Category: ♥ HEALTH FOR ALL
Country: Bangladesh
Organization: Sonargaon University [SU]
Photo Caption: নতুন কুড়ির মেলায় সাজুক ইচ্ছে বৃক্ষ
ত্যাগে হোক আনন্দ বৃষ্টি, অতঃপর
বহু প্রতিক্ষায় মানব হাসির কল্লোল তিলে তিলে জমে থাকা অনুভূতির বেওয়ারিশ ঘোরের অভ্যস্ততায় ভাল্লাগেনা রোগের নিরাময়ে তৃপ্তি নিয়ে কারো আহ্বান অপেক্ষার বৃষ্টি শেষে, বিষ্মিত সুন্দর মেঘের খামে ।
Professional or Amateur Photographer: Amateur
Country where the photo was taken: Bangladesh
Photo uploaded for the #LoveYourEyes Photo Competition on iapb.org held for World Sight Day 2021.
Photographer: Syed Atahar Uddin Tousif
Submitted by: Rajesh Pandey
Country: India
Organisation: Self Employed
Category: Professional
Caption: Countess of Wessex, Highness Sophie receives a picture frame which depicts the miraculous transformation of Baby Rishita. The baby was just 650 grams at birth. She had a very slim chance to survive, and to make things worse she was diagnosed with Retinopathy of Prematurity, which if not treated would have left her blind. Beating all odds, she not only survived but her eyesight was also saved due to timely diagnosis and treatment by the Govt Doctors of Nalagonda, Telangana, India
Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019
The ophthalmologist is able to read the photographs and make a diagnosis from their office, and send back the results to the primary care clinic.
Prakash Nethralaya is an Ayurvedic Hospital offering Ayurvedic treatment for various eye, general and gynae diseases like diabetic retinopathy, Uveitis, RP, AMD, Dry Eye, Glaucoma, Migraine, skin diseases, joint problems, etc.
Visit our website here- www.ayurprakash.com
odin is now the face of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) page on the preemies.about.com!
the original image and the story behind it ( because there's always a story! ) can be found on day 1010: odin's first pair of glasses!.
interestingly, one of citations on the ROP page was authored by antonio capone who saw odin on a post-nicu follow up exam.
small world!
Photo Title: My turn for ROP screening!
Submitted by: Clelia Crespo Nano
Category: EVERYONE COUNTS
Country: Argentina
Organization: Fundacion oftalmológica Hugo D Nano
Photo Caption: ROP screening at Raul F Larcade Hospital, san miguel Buenos Aires Argentina
Professional or Amateur Photographer: Amateur
Country where the photo was taken: Argentina
Photo uploaded for the #LoveYourEyes Photo Competition on iapb.org held for World Sight Day 2021.
Photographer:
Eileen Fairhurst, Chair of NHS Salford and Sue Cleaver from Coronation street supporting retinopathy as a method to detect diabetes and save sight.
Submitted by: Tiffany Clementson
Country: Guyana
Organisation: Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation
Category: Amateur
Caption: Laser therapy for Diabetic Retinopathy
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Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019
right before his ROP assessment, kris talks to him and explains what is about to happen.
it's hard to tell in the photo, but the opthamologist has called ahead and they've put drops in his eyes which dilate his pupils and make him very sensitive to light. defying expectations, he doesn't seem bothered by the drops.
yes. when you're waiting around for the opthamologist to finish a phone call, you might find yourself passing the time with the nurses by placing "laser goggles" on your son while he's sedated.
hey - you find levity where you can, trust me.
soon after this picture was shot, they started the procedure and kicked me out. much to my surprise, the doctor called me back in before he was finished so i could watch the final "burns".
he told me several times that he had never, ever invited anyone in to watch him work so i think it was quite a privilege. i didn't get any pictures because i had to wear the goggles that eric is wearing to protect my eyes.
Diabetes Roshani is an educational and awareness activity for the benefit of society. Activities conducted are Walk To Stop Diabetes, Candle march, exhibition on diabetes, free blood glucose test, blood pressure, neuropathy detection, early detection of diabetic nephropathy,retinopathy etc.1600 free blood glucose test were done.
one of eric's neonatologists from eric's old nicu stopped by today. she does research at the new nicu and after talking for a bit about how he was doing, she asked us if we'd allow her to have some pictures taken for a publication that they are putting together about the ROP research that she's doing with eric's opthamologist, dr. droste. of course, we were happy to have them take some pictures of little odin, on the condition that i could take a picture of them taking a picture of him.
Philadelphia (8/21/17)
Wills Eye Hospital provided 2,000 pairs of free solar eclipse viewing glasses this morning. All of the glasses were gone by 10:00 a.m.
The first person in line arrived at 4:30 a.m. and was interviewed by several local TV stations. The line wound around the four corners, encompassing the hospital at Ninth and Walnut Streets.
A diverse group of individuals stood in line, reading, listening to music, taking selfies and attending to their pets, as they killed time before receiving their glasses.
Wills Eye Hospital was recently honored among the best Eye Hospitals in the country by U.S. News and World Reports: Best Hospitals.
Photos: roger barone/WILLS EYE HOSPITAL