Healing Stories Network

The Reading Room

Honest, first-person companions to the conditions, treatments, and choices explored across our library.

A guide to our Eye & Vision shelf — twelve anthologies of first-person testimony, from LASIK and cataract surgery to glauco...

One of the most common and successful operations there is. What cataracts are, what the surgery is really like, and the joy of ...

Waking up able to see, without reaching for glasses. What LASIK is really like, who it suits, and the honest pros and cons peop...