Remembering How I Became Blind Makes Me Sad - 31-year-old Computer Scientist Speaks Out

Becoming suddenly blind can be traumatising for anyone who was born with ‘normal’ sight, hitherto sighted persons tell ANGELA ONWUZOO 

Temitope Lawal had a promising youth that was without the danger of visual impedance. 

The 31-year-old woman, after graduation from the college, joined her mom in her bread conveyance business. She intended to set up her own bread shop. 

The alumni of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, before long turned into a super bread merchant in Lagos. In 2018, everything changed. The Osun State indigene turned out to be out of nowhere visually impaired, a circumstance that tossed her and her family into torment and desolation. 

Temitope, who is as yet attempting to acclimate to her unexpected vision misfortune, stated, "Each time I think back and recollect how I got visually impaired in 2018, I feel discouraged. Envision the agony of somebody that was seeing previously, dedicated and autonomous, abruptly getting visually impaired and reliant on others for endurance. 

"Everything began in 2018, I was driving one evening when I had a slight mishap and hit my head on the guiding. 

"Months after the fact, I began seeing an obscured vision. In this way, I went to Isolo General Hospital, Lagos. I was determined to have retinal separation, which required a medical procedure. 

"I was encouraged to go to either the Eye Foundation at Ikeja or the University College Hospital, Ibadan, for the medical procedure, as specialists at Isolo General Hospital said they won't have the option to do the medical procedure in view of absence of offices. 

"Yet, I didn't go to any of the medical clinics quickly in light of the fact that I had no cash for my therapy. 

"I attempted other general clinics in Lagos to check whether I could have the medical procedure in any of them, yet they all said they did not have the ability to embrace it. 

"While looking for a moderate emergency clinic that could do the medical procedure, I began having tension on my eyes. Afterward, I began feeling torments on the left eye, which was the one I was seeing with on the grounds that I could presently don't see with the correct one." 

She at last made it to Eye Foundation, where she was informed that she had microorganisms to her left side eye. That was the thing was causing the torment, she was told. 

"Thus, I was given an eye drop and different prescriptions. At the point when I returned home and began utilizing the eye drop, tears streamed wildly from my eye as though I was crying. 

"It proceeded with like that for quite a long time. I didn't see that my left eye was contracting until a connection caused me to notice it." She said she didn't return to the medical clinic to grumble. 

"At the point when it proceeded, my family requested that I attempt another medical clinic. Along these lines, I went to AkefMaghraby Eye Clinic, Eruwa, Oyo State, where the eye expert mentioned to see my prescriptions.