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 Dr. Sharon Freedman Thanks to everyone who generously supported our fundraising drive to buy more Icares for the Icare lending library at Duke Eye Center! We just received an email from Dr. Sharon Freedman:
I am happy to report that three boxes of Icare units have arrived and are sitting in my desk, waiting to be opened and put into use with the lending library! Special thanks to Mr. John Floyd, the General Manager of Icare USA, and Dr. Sharon Freedman, for making the lending library a succes, and for helping so many other families to control their kid's glaucoma.
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Thanks to your support of Saving Kids’ Sight, thirteen new Icare tonometers were loaned out to families this year, to help prevent glaucoma from stealing their child’s sight. Measuring their child’s eye pressure three times a day and reporting back to Dr. Sharon Freedman at Duke Eye Center, not only helps to manage their child’s advanced glaucoma, but is also helping hundreds of ophthalmologists around the world to better understand and treat childhood glaucoma. Please consider a gift to support our goals for 2017. We have a generous donor who will match all donations from now through December 31st up to a total of $10,000. Donations can be made through our Fiscal Sponsor, Residence Partners NFP, by clicking the DONATE! button above. In 2017, with your support, we can help more children who are battling glaucoma. We currently have the opportunity to purchase refurbished units at half price ($1,995 instead of $3,995). Please help us to purchase 12 more Icares for beating childhood glaucoma in 2017. Thanks so much for your generous support, Sarah  Dr. Sharon Freedman, shows Karen Crozier how to use a tonometer with her son Quinn Crozier at the Duke Eye Center. Sarah Smale raised money to buy a library of tonometers. The instruments, which are used to check glaucoma pressures, will be loaned out to other patients to bring home.
Shawn Rocco/Duke Health Yay, the Icare lending library is set up at Duke Eye Center! Thanks to everyone for your support. I am so excited! Here is four year old Quinn, choosing his Icare to take home.  Shawn Rocco/Duke Health Quinn loves having his eye pressure taken with the Icare.  Shawn Rocco/Duke Health
I am super excited that our first iCare tonometer has been loaned to a family with a 12 year old boy named Cole. Cole has had two surgeries in the past four months, and has another surgery scheduled for April, to try to get his eye pressure under control.
 About three weeks ago, I had a check-up appointment with my glaucoma doctor. It went well-ish. I hadn’t seen her since my surgery last May, when my glaucoma shunt had been moving a lot and she tied it down really well with extra-strong stitches.
I found out that my shunt is still moving, but not nearly as much as before the surgery. This means that I’m going to have to have a steroid eye drop for the rest of my life so that I don’t get inflammation in my eye. I feel like I have a ton of drops every day – 3 different drops, twice a day for each of them. I was worried that I’d have to add even more drops, because my eye pressure was high that morning, too. It was 29 which is quite high, but it’s usually about 22 or 23 in the mornings and 19 at night. The good news is that I had an appointment last week with my regular ophthalmologist and my pressure was back down. He measured twice and got 17 and 19. He also searched for inflammation in my eye and it was all gone, but I have to stay on the steroid drops to keep the inflammation away. My next appointment is in December and I hope it goes great as well. |
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The goal of my blog is to increase awareness of childhood glaucoma and other eye diseases, and to unite kids like me living with visual impairment.Archives
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