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A Singular View: The Art of Seeing With One Eye

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I was born with a Cataract in 1971 which wasn't removed until I was 7 years old in an out of town hospital (due to the fact that the doctors in my area who were not educated in Cataract surgery in infants.) From birth, I did not have vision in my right eye.

I was introduced to this book by my Ocularist when I received my scleral shell for my eye in 1996. (Yes, yet another doctor in my area that had no idea what he was doing. I lost my during a procedure he performed that was unnecessary.)

This book was helpful to me in understanding how and why I do certain things with one eye. Also, it explains how to compensate for the lack of depth-perception or peripheral vision. It gives a list of famous personalities with monocular vision so don't feel so alone. These people did great things in life with only one eye, for example Theodore Roosevelt, Sandy Duncan, Peter Falk, Guglielmo Marconi, John Milton, Horatio Nelson, and Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas are just a few.

I recommend this book to anyone who knows someone or is a person with one eye. Some may have lost their eye years ago or recently. Either way, it is a help to all.

In my 28 years in eyecare, I've never come across a better book on monocularity (having only one seeing eye). I've recommended this book to several patients, with wonderful results. My best advice to any person with only one useful eye is two-fold: always wear safety glasses, and get this book! It is full of practical advice that I've passed along to patients, even those who have two good eyes but must wear an eye patch on one for a while. This is grass-roots stuff to help you where you live...driving, dining out, even shaking hands. As an author and editor of eyecare material myself, I'm very particular and picky. But this book is a winner any way you look at it.

Seeing with only one eye does not necessarily have to stop you from doing all the things that are fun. This book gives you some hints a sto what to expect when one eye does not work, and most importantly, how to compensate. You finish the book with a clear "View" that there isn't anything you cannot do even if it takes a little more work.

My 7 year old son lost vision in one eye through a accident. My sister found this book in the public library and it was very helpful to us as parents and for my son. It helped us deal with some of the every day difficulties in the first few months. It also helped us realize that he could continue doing alot of the same activities, with extra precautions of course. I have passed on the name of the book to all the eye specialist we have seen. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has lost vision in one eye or any one dealing directly with a friend or relative who has lost vision in one eye.

I lost sight of one eye in 1988. It did not hurt, but I did not know what to expect, and how I would adapt to monocular vision. No-one seemed to be able to advise me - until I came across "A Singular View".
This book explains it in 129 large print pages, using ordinary English, not in medispeak. It explains how most people see, the process of adjusting to the use of just one eye, and tips to adapt in a wide range of day to day situations.
If you have lost, or are losing, the sight of one eye, are you close to someone in this situation, this book is a MUST.>

I am 72 years old woman. 6 years ago I lost my right eye to freak illness. My eye had to be
surgically removed.
I have perfectly fitted prostetic eye. You hardly can tell the difference. But when I needed to renew my driving
licence I faced the problem with DMV. Those stupids did not had a clue what "monovision" means and how it
Effect the driving ability. They said it is "disability", and This Book explains it as "inconvinience". Further than 3ft
in front everybody sees the same with one or two eyes. Showing this book to safety officer helped me to get my
driving priviledgies back!
Thanks to the author Frank B Brady!
Irene

At the age of 57 in the space of 2 minutues I lost the sight in my right eye due to a vascular event. This book was recommended to me and I read it about 10 days later. As I am a physician most of the concepts were not new to me but they are well laid out and there is no medical jargon. Most of the techniques to compensate for monocular (one eyed) vision are fairly simple and you figure them out for yourself. That said, this book is a very useful guide for the newly one eyed and I would recomend it. It will probably shorten the time it takes to become fully adapted, to the new visual reality.

This book was a godsend to me. I found it about a month after losing my right eye in a car accident 8 years ago. It is extremely helpful and I believe it should be required reading for anyone who has recently lost an eye.

The author does a superb job of explaining the physical aspects of compesating for monocular vision. Very useful book!

I read this book several years ago and have recommended it many times.

My eye was surgically removed 11 months ago because of a tumor (melanoma) behind the eye. This book was very helpful to me and very encouraging. You quickly figure out some of the things in the book on your own but it's nice to have someone give you pointers on the things that don't come naturally. I still look through the book occasionally and find useful information. As another reviewer indicated, you can get this book for $21, shipping and handling included. Just search the book's title. If you've recently lost an eye you've had enough trauma....no need to pay more than $100 for this. I highly recommend this book.