It has been an amazing couple of weeks—starting with a letter notifying me that I’d been awarded a 4Culture grant to support my next book project, Determined to See, followed by the launch of our new teen story collection, You’ve Got It All Wrong, and then discovering that Hippie Boy made #20 on the June 16th New York Times bestseller list!
A couple of weeks ago, I embarked on a year-long quest to heal my eyesight working with Dr. Yu at the Wellspring Clinic in Vancouver, Canada. Wellspring, which utilizes Chinese medicine, has been working with RP patients for thirteen years and has had helped a lot of people struggling with Retinitis Pigmentosa to maintain and even improve their vision.
One of the most surprising and rewarding outcomes of sharing my journey with Retinitis Pigmentosa in my new memoir, Focus, has been the numerous emails and Facebook messages I’ve received from others who are struggling with RP or another blinding eye disease. Some, like me, have been dealing with vision loss for a while and […]
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