With the help of new electronic glasses, a fifth grader who
has been legally blind his entire life recently had to the chance to see his
mother for the first time. Marquita Hackley and her 12-year-old son,
Christopher Ward Jr., tried eSight, a new wearable technology that allows
people with vision loss to actually see.
The little boy was born with optic nerve hypoplasia, which
means that before birth, his optic nerve never fully developed.
Hackley told ABC News that her son 'only
has little light perception in his left eye and very, very low vision in his
right eye. Something has to be up in his face, almost touching for him to see
it,' she told ABC News.
'And even though Ward wears glasses on a daily basis,
they're more for protection than vision because there is a strong possibility
he could lose the little sight he does have if were to get hurt or hit on the
face.'
Like any mother, Hackley became emotional when she was able
to witness her son try on the eSight device and 'really see for the first time
in his 12 years of life.'
'The very first thing he did was turn to me and say, 'Oh,
Mommy! There you are!' Hackley told ABC News.
And then to hear him say, 'I saw my mom, and she was very
pretty,' was so heartwarming. And aside from pretty, just the fact he
could even see me meant the whole world to me.'
According to the company's website, their
hands-free headset has a small, high-speed camera that captures live video
which is then sent to a LED screen in front of the person's eyes who are wearing
them. It allows them to see with 'unprecedented visual clarity,' the
website says.
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I can imagine the feeling!
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