JipJopJones

I do too!

Haha, yes. Both in person and on the inter-webs.

I suppose the title was a little misleading. When I was young, I was able to see. Quite well actually, up until I was about 10 years old. Then my vision started to decline. When I was 13 I had my first corneal transplant which brought my vision in my left eye back up to usable levels.

I didn't actually go fully blind until I was about 19, when my corneal transplant in my left eye rejected and because I had no work done on the right eye up to that point it was also blind.

I was blind for about a year. During that time I could make out colours and vague shapes with my right eye, but I could only see whiteness out of my left.

When I had my second transplant (on my right eye) to give me some vision back, it was very strange. I had honestly, on only about a year, forgotten what it was like to see. Especially face recognition. I found (and to a degree still find) that to be the most difficult part. The other odd thing was because I had only seen out of my left eye for the past 6 years, and now I was seeing out of my right eye, I had a tendency to walk into things for the first few months because of the change of perspective.

Hope that answers your question... there's kind of a lot of backstory to be told, so I'm I'll try my best to answer the questions without writing out a novel in the progress.... haha

I'm sorry to hear that. I feel like I've been through so much, it's changed me as a person.

I'm lucky in that I can see almost 20/20 out of my right eye with glasses, but what it took to get there I would not wish on my worst enemy. - It's been 10 years in the making.

Luckily, being Canadian, it's mostly all covered. When I had my lens replaced I (my parents) did pay $500 to have a more high quality lens put in.