Wendi Dwyer has proven time and time again that her resolve is bigger than any challenge in front of her. When she started losing her eyesight, she vowed to keep doing what she loved. In the process, she became an inspiration to others.
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UW Eye Surgeons Help Patient With Rare Disease Fight For Her Sight
Dani Hansen has repeated the same phrase over and over, thousands of times, in her head: “I want to be like a sunflower so that even on my darkest days I will stand tall and find the light.“ Over six years and nearly a dozen eye surgeries, the mantra has kept her going.
Jean Austin’s Journey to Regain Her Sight
For Jean Austin, the biggest problem with her failing eyesight was the inability to be outside in the sunshine. A cornea transplant changed all that.
UW Launches New Ophthalmology Assistant Apprenticeship Program
Eye care, like many areas of the health sector, is facing an ongoing personnel shortage. UW Health is addressing the challenge by recruiting, growing, and training its own. The new program is providing eight employees the life-changing opportunity to receive on-the-job training and classroom instruction, while still receiving their salaries and benefits.
Coming Full Circle: Former Ophthalmology Patient Works in the Operating Room, Alongside the Doctor Who Treated Her
Fifteen years after her first strabismus surgery, Veronica Witt still finds herself in the UW Health eye clinic every week. But these days, it’s for a much different reason. The 40-year-old year old from Appleton, …
Measure for Measure
“Dishonor not your eye By throwing it on any other object, Till you have heard me in my true complaint, And given me justice, justice, justice, justice!” – Isabella, Measure for Measure William Shakespeare Over …
Vision Driven. The Chad Mayfield Story.
If you’d had the good fortune to know Chad Mayfield as a kid, you’d have thought it quite reasonable, even probable, that he would grow up to play third base in the big leagues …
Music To Our Ears: Patient Sight Story Series
Just ask and you’ll learn that Steve Birchall thinks that the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences has been “music to his ears.” Steve, a former music professor who has worn glasses …
Can You See It? Patient Sight Story Series
As Russ recalls it… I’d made the appointment capriciously, feeling that I could get this over with by seeing some of the top eye doctors in the country right here, as part of the University …