Seeing Within

Losing My Sight to Stargardt's Disease

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Six weeks ago I sat in a hospital and got told my sight had deteriorated significantly. Today I went back for the follow-up, and I already knew it wasn’t going to be good news.

This is what I recorded that morning, before I left the house.

I talk about the strange grief of losing your sight slowly rather than all at once — how you don’t just grieve it once, you grieve it over and over, every…