Angie Zulay Castillo Valencia A00355289

1) When the subject was between 9-18 months old, she developed cataracts in her eyes which caused her to gradually lose her sight. 2) After various examinations and operations to remove the cataracts, her vision was restored but she developed a deviation in one eye. 3) Despite follow up operations and patches to correct the deviation, she did not always follow the doctor's recommendations to wear the patches due to bullying from other children.

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Angie Zulay Castillo Valencia

A00355289

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When it all happened I was very young, I was between 9 and 18 months old when the tragedy of
the story happened. I remember little or nothing about what happened, but my parents and family
always told me what happened and how it happened. Thanks to my young age at the time I did
not suffer from living without sight, but now I am aware of what happened, the importance of my
life and mainly I learned the injury that this should bring to my life.
It was a Friday in June 2001 like any other, it was around 6:00 PM and my mother had recently
come house from her work and she was sitting and resting in the front of the house. The only
particular thing about that day is that they were celebrating the godson’s day and that is why my
godmother decided to go to my house to congratulate me. As my mother was outside, my
godmother Aura was received by her in front of the house. After a long talk, my godmother
decides to enter the house to greet me.
I was in the kitchen when my godmother came in I was carried by her and while she hugged me
she saw that I had something in my eye. She tried to remove, but when she saw that she couldn't,
she told my mom. His first reaction was to ask my godmother to remove the garbage from my
eye to which she replied "I can|t, it is something that is inside the eye." My mother was very
worried about what was happening, what I had in my eye wasn|t simple garbage and it was
something that could only be seen in the dark. On Tuesday morning my mother took me to the
ophthalmologist ... that day they discovered that what I had in my eye was not garbage, the
doctor's diagnosis was cataracts.
The month after my diagnosis was a constant travel between Buenaventura and Cali, one exam
after another to find out in-depth how serious my illness was and what they could do to cure me.
While the moon in my eyes grew faster every day and with it my sight was going. On July 31 of
that year, my mother decided to quit her job and on August 1 we traveled to Cali permanently.
The doors of my paternal grandmother's house were opened for us, her house is 3 floors and
single-family, 10 days after arriving in Cali I lost my sight completely. Being completely blind
worried my mother even more and made her search with more difficulties and a solution for my
illness. However, a few days later I developed an allergy and that prevented me from entering the
operating room. On September 9, I entered the operating room for the first time, I still had not
completely overcome the allergy, but the doctor was worried that the disease would pass to the
back of my eye and therefore decided not to wait any longer.
That day my left eye was operated on and my vision recovery was almost instantaneous. While I
was blind I never fell from the stairs of my grandmother's house, but from that day on I started to.
A month later, in October, they operated on my right eye. The operations were a success, and I
sucked my eyesight without problems, the only bad thing is that my vision could deviate. My
parents considered the possibility of surgery to correct the deviation, but the doctor recommended
that they not do it because, as I was growing, that could improve over the years. The next year I
underwent two new operations in which I had an implant placed in my eye to fix my sight
because without my sight would be insecure and with this, I was at greater risk of deviation. After
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my eyes completely healed the doctor recommended that I wear patches, I should cover one eye
for day.
Despite the fact that everything went well with my operations, I must admit that I did not follow
the doctor's recommendations. I would lie to my mother about wearing the patch, sometimes I
would go out of the house with it but then I would take it off and when they bought me the pirate
patch I would put it on before I got home. Initially, she did not use the patch because it was
uncomfortable, but, as she grew up, it became more difficult to do so because the other children
were bullying. For a girl of 2 or 3 years it is difficult to understand that health is more important
than your physical appearance, as much as my family told me in my little world that idea was
difficult to buy.
Today I have a deviation in my eye and thanks to this I can say that I learned the injury, thanks to
this I understood that in front of my health there is no opinion or criticism that weighs more, that
I must always be on the good or bad thing that others say. Everything that I experienced at such a
young age and that my family always told me was a fundamental part of my growth, both
personal and emotional, and today I am sure that health is first.