Within the span of five years, Mollie Scott of the Bishop/Mammoth area lost her husband and her parents. Two years later, with no family closer than 1,000 miles away, she lost most of her vision to angle-closure glaucoma. As she dealt with the...
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When Nick Westerman finally acknowledged he needed help with vision loss and came to Society for the Blind, he had no idea it would lead to a new career working there. Nick was diagnosed with Stargardt disease, a juvenile form of macular...
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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...
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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...
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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