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Pediatric Cataracts

Seventh Grader Overcomes Rare Eye Condition—and Keeps Throwing Strikes

Posted on January 7, 2026

  Two weeks after eye surgery, 13-year-old Kenzie Omit stepped up to the bowling lane—without glasses—and delivered strike after strike. Kenzie, a seventh grader at Nikolay Middle School in Cambridge, WI, has spent most of …

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