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Episode: My Journey Into Blindness and the Surgery That Restored it. Elizabeth Pizzarello
Description: Elizabeth Pizzarello was born a sighted child in the Bronx, New York. She grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Cedar Crest College, in Pennsylvania. Just weeks before graduating, she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disorder that contributed to her eventual blindness. After ten years of living blind, in 2012 Elizabeth was the beneficiary of a newly developed lens implant procedure with miraculous results. The surgery took her from a state of complete blindness to the limited use of one eye.
The inspiration for writing this memoir came from that moment of profound gratitude when Elizabeth experienced her new...