Il mio occhio speciale: Un libro per bambini sulle protesi oculari [Italian]

By Maria Gomez-Lozano

Ci sono molte cose che rendono Bruno speciale. Ama andare in bicicletta e giocare a calcio, un ottimo fratello maggiore ed appassionato degli animali. Ha anche una protesi oculare. In questo libro scoprirai perch Bruno porta la sua protesi, come se ne prende cura, come protegge i suoi occhi da possibili incidenti e com' la visita dall'ocularista.

Avere un occhio speciale solo una delle tante cose che rendono Bruno unico. Questo libro pieno di ottimismo sar una grande risorsa per tutti i bambini con visione monoculare, indipendentemente dal fatto che abbiano o meno una protesi oculare, un guscio sclerale o una lente a contatto cosmetica.

Il mio occhio speciale anche disponibile in inglese (My Special Eye: a children's book about having a prosthetic eye) e spagnolo (Mi ojo especial: Un libro para ni os sobre pr tesis oculares). Per maggiore informazioni visita facebook.com/MySpecialEye/

From the Author: The story behind My Special Eye book

My Special Eye was created a few years after my son lost vision in his left eye when he was 2 years old. One year later he had surgery to replace his eye with a prosthetic eye. It is an understatement to say that this affected our family deeply. Apart from the shock and pain for the suffering of our child and the anxiety for his future, we found ourselves dealing with something completely unexpected that we knew nothing about. Ocular prosthesis, scleral shell, hydroxyapatite implant, uveitis, phthisis bulbi, band keratopathy, evisceration, enucleation... suddenly all these terms became part of our day-to-day vocabulary.

My Special Eye is the children's book we would have liked to have at that time. It will be a useful resource for any child with vision in one eye, a prosthetic eye or a scleral shell.

Explaining a child that he or she needs an ocular prosthesis is not easy. However when the time came we found that our son and his sibling were way ahead of us in terms of acceptance, resilience and positivity. Also we soon realised that losing vision in one eye didn't limit our child in any way. For him his prosthesis meant that now he had a special eye that could be taken in and out. Nothing more and nothing less.

I hope My Special Eye book will help monocular children and their families to realise that having a prosthetic eye is just one of the many things that make them so special and unique.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Italian
• ISBN: B08FKP2ZM3
• ISBN13: 9798672592916
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 26 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 8.5"