Mi ojo especial: Un libro para ni?os sobre pr?tesis oculares [Spanish]

By Maria Gomez-Lozano

Hay muchas cosas que hacen que Bruno sea especial. Le encanta montar en bici y jugar al f tbol, es un hermano mayor estupendo y le apasionan los animales. Tambi n tiene una pr tesis ocular. En este libro descubrir s por qu Bruno lleva su pr tesis, c mo la cuida, c mo protege sus ojos de posibles accidentes y c mo es una visita al ocularista.

Tener un ojo tan especial es solo una de las muchas cosas que hacen a Bruno nico. Este libro lleno de optimismo ser un gran recurso para cualquier ni o con visi n monocular, tenga o no una pr tesis ocular, cascarilla escleral o lentilla cosm tica.

Mi ojo especial tambi n est disponible en ingl s (My Special Eye: a children's book about having a prosthetic eye) e italiano (Il mio occhio speciale: Un libro per bambini sulle protesi oculari). Para m s informaci n, 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: Spanish
• ISBN: B08F6CG75M
• ISBN13: 9798672206103
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 26 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 8.5"