A Book Review of Focus by Ingrid Ricks
How might it feel to go to get glasses, pick out your
favorite frames on the way in to the ophthalmologists’ office, and then to find
out that your field of vision is so small that you are legally blind? To learn that glasses won’t help? To learn it
is a progressive disease?
Find out how Ingrid Ricks felt when she received this devastating
news. Find out how she got her positive perspective back. Find out what life is
like with Retinitis Pigmentosa…and what she is doing about it.
Ingrid Ricks tells it like it is, making it all so real you
feel like you are right there. At times, we might go down to the depths with
her but, as always, she brings us back up to the positive, optimistic place
that characterizes her writing.
As a mother with two sons who had sudden vision losses, I
remember looking for books – any books - on the subject of vision loss, and
coming up short. At that time, there was basically nothing I could find. I wasn’t
looking for a book that explained the technical details or for a book specific
to my sons’ condition. I just wanted something, anything on the subject. Finally,
someone wrote one of those books I had been looking for.
But even if you don’t know anyone with vision loss, or maybe
even more so in that case, this book can help you to see life through someone
else’s eyes.
