Seeing & Believing

When an eye problem leads to an opening of the eyes

- Aekta Kapoor

There was a problem in my left eye and I put it down to being indoors for so many months during the lockdown. “I am getting too much of the computer and too little of the outdoors,” I thought to myself, assuming the issue would go away once lockdown ended and life went back to ‘normal’.

Of course, life never did go back to ‘normal’, and my eye problem persisted. One morning, I resolutely drove down to the neighbourhood optometrist. He checked if I needed spectacles but found that it was ‘something else’ and told me to see a retina specialist.