Yearly Archives: 2021

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  Back in the Game

  Posted on July 28, 2021 by IngridRicks in Featured

  I was in a full downward spiral after getting news I had been blocked from a groundbreaking optogenetics clinical trial that could give me back my eyesight. Then I received a text message from former NFL Coach Golden Pat Ruel admonishing me to put on my hurdle-jumping shoes. “Remember that it’s often the second mouse […]

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  Summer of Self-Love: Rewriting the Stories We Tell Ourselves

  Posted on June 8, 2021 by IngridRicks in Featured

  I know all about the soul-destroying power of the toxic stories we feed on because mine nearly did me in. Two years ago, I was curled in a fetal position on my living room floor, so paralyzed with grief and despair over my recent eyesight loss that I couldn’t move. But it was the fear-induced […]

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  Chemically Induced Retinal Cells Offer Vision Restoration Hope for RP

  Posted on April 15, 2021 by IngridRicks in Featured

  I’ve been in hiatus for a couple of years because—between breast cancer and a sudden, dramatic drop in vision that now hovers around light perception—I felt like I had been smashed in the face with a two-by-four. But like all of you who are determined to see your family’s faces and the world around you, I’ve […]

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