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Patient
Stories
She
has
talent,
achievements,
aspirations
and
she
has
lived
with
Glaucoma
since
the
age
of
three.
But
her
optimism
and
her
perseverance
have
never
let
her
down.
In
her
own words:
“I
was
born
in
Yerevan,
Armenia,
with
many
gifts,
so
Nature
must
have
decided
to
take
something
away
in
return.
At
age
3,
I
was
diagnosed
with
Uveitis, an
eye
disease
that
causes
Glaucoma.
My
life
was
filled
with
surgeries,
treatment,
and
check-ups...."
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It
all
started
two
summers
ago,
when
Mrs.
Donna
Evans,
the
wife
of
former
U.S.
Ambassador
to
Armenia
John
Evans,
visited
the
10th
century
renowned
Armenian
Monastery
of
Sanahin
in Lori
region.
A
child,
playing
in
the
courtyard,
caught
Mrs.
Evans’
attention.
The
child
was
lovely
and
beautiful
and
had
acute
strabismus.
This
year,
2007,
in
March,
at
the request
of
Mrs.
Donna
Evans
the
AECP
tried
to
find
and
support
the
child
to
receive
treatment.
During
this
search
other
children
with
strabismus
were
encountered,
some
of
who
had an
opportunity
to
benefit
from
the
AECP
services.
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Blindness
is
devastating.
At
any
age.
But
a
child
without
sight,
whether
by
birth
or
by
accident,
is
especially
tragic
with
their
entire
future
at
risk.
Children
who
are
partially
or totally
blind
are
unable
to
participate
in
the
world
around
them
as
sighted
children
are,
which
effects
their
social
growth,
their
learning
and
virtually
everything
related
to
growing
up.
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“Wounded
and bleeding,
Tsovinar left
her dying
brother in
the field
where the
bomb had
exploded. Seeking
help, the
little girl
crawled slowly along
the ground,
somehow able
to reach the
iron fence
that separated
the field
from the
highroad.”
In
war-weary Nagorno-Karabagh,
the AECP
doctors dealt
firsthand with
the high
number of
injuries from
landmines and
other explosives,
especially among
children.
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