An end to hatred ... and a healing of lost sight

Jon Benson

When I was a graduate student, I woke up one morning unaccountably blind in one eye, and in incredible pain from the light.

My wife was very concerned, as was I, so we went to the university medical center. The ophthalmology team there diagnosed severe infection of the inner eye, which had already progressed to a dangerous point. They told me that I might become permanently blind in that eye. The only treatment known to them at that time was a medication to arrest the infection. I followed that treatment for about a week to ten days.

I saw the doctor frequently, but the medication had no effect. The medical team thought the nerves and tissues necessary to seeing weren't even there to be repaired. So they said I was permanently blind in that eye.

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