The last thing Larry Laronge remembers seeing was the surgical table as he rolled onto it from the gurney. When he woke up from quadruple bypass surgery seven days later, he was completely blind from an anesthesia complication. His son, Scott...
Learn more“My hand is to me what your hearing and sight together are to you. In large measure we travel the same highways, read the same books, speak the same language, yet our experiences are different. The hand is my feeler with which I reach...
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Seniors with vision loss in the Sacramento region will receive assistive tools and technology, thanks to a $10,000 grant from Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society Alliance. The grant will help fund Society for the Blind’s Senior IMPACT...
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Tracy Kinoshita’s son Michael was diagnosed with rod-cone dystrophy when he was just five months old. The cones are the photoreceptor cells that allow us to see fine details and to filter light. Michael’s cones did not form completely, leaving...
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If you’ve ever brushed up against a prickly pear or Saguaro cactus, it is very hard to get those cactus stickers out. And that was the point of the two-day VisionServe Alliance conference: Develop networks that stick – so you can make change that...
Learn moreOn May 3, we had 24 hours to raise $10,000 to stock our teaching kitchens and provide vital workshop supplies for our senior programs as part of Big Day of Giving, our region’s annual 24-hour giving day. We did it! And we exceeded our goal by...
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