VIDBE-Q 2026 Volume 71 Issue 1
Eric Boklage
eric.boklage@second-sense.org
Graduate of UMass Boston
Vision Rehab is my Act II. Act I involved four decades in a business career,
during which I hadn't even remotely considered the possibility of being a vision
rehab professional.
When the COVID pandemic virtually shut down most aspects of the
business world, I found myself searching for another professional role like many
other people. But this time, things were different. Deteriorating vision forced me to
reconsider whether I could continue to do the same sort of work I'd done for so
long in corporate America.
Despite very good clinical outcomes from five separate eye surgeries, optic
nerve damage and progressive glaucoma left me with visual field loss and needing
dark tinted prescription eyeglasses to help address a lack of contrast and increasing
photophobia.
Vision Rehab as Act II
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