My (23f) sister (39f) recently suffered swelling on the brain which burst her optic nerves and has made her completely blind almost overnight. There’s a lot more to her medical history but essentially in the span of 1-2 months her vision has completely gone and her neurologist and ophthalmologists have confirmed it is not coming back. She is now in her 6th month of being blind and has been seeking alternative medicines and still praying for a miracle to get her vision back. At this stage the odds are not looking good and she is beginning to lose hope. I am wondering if anyone has any advice for her. Where to from here? She is undergoing physio to try help with her balance as this is also bad due to damage on the brain.
So essentially her days are mostly made up of sitting on her lounge or laying down. As this is new to our family we are all a little lost with how to help her gain her life back with her vision loss. Things like podcasts are one activity that comes to mind but what else could we introduce to her daily life?
How do you learn to do things ? Are there groups or YouTube channels that could help?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I want to try help her understand that there’s still so much she can do. It’s easy for me to say to keep positive but I have no idea how devastating this would be for her and I want to be able to give her good options and activities to help her get her life back.