“I was diagnosed with AION (Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, lack of blood flow to the optic nerve which destroys nerve cells and create blindness partial or complete) and the medical doctors had advised me to apply for a Seeing Eye dog before I met you and took 9 double-sessions. There are a few eye exercises I do every night which seemed to have improved my eyesight. I regained much of my peripheral vision and I have been driving these past four years around 10,000 miles a year. Try to not drive more than an hour at a time and minimize my night time driving in major rainstorms. Every night without fail I use battery strobe lights and an eye patch with a small hole in it to wake up my eye sensors. With reading glasses I can read just about anything and work on contracts for my profession. I can read most street signs without glasses… Every few days I go on a 20-30 min walk with an eye patch covering my stronger eye to build up the weaker eye. My goal this year is to ski down an intermediate slope with the patch covering my strong eye. The past few years I have gone back to snow skiing, doing the expert runs, not fast, but in control on very steep ski slopes. I have been riding my road bike up Mt. Diablo, and take it at 20 miles an hour coming down the mountain. Feel very safe. I also bowled a 180 a few games ago… an amazing recovery.”