From Light To Darkness, “Mommy” To “Your Mother” A Blind Mom’s Power Of Invisibility

It faded into the steamed glass fog my vision was becoming as cataracts in my fourteen-year-old eyes sought to claim what little sight remained to me. I looked into a mirror every day and watched myself be erased. My dimpled smile transformed from curved lips and white teeth to the feeling of muscles tightening in a way that suddenly felt foreign and false. My voice, disjointed from my countenance, now felt ghost-like when a glance toward a mirror could no longer affirm it still came from my lips. Logic broke away from perception, and for over a year, I floated like a phantom in a body I could no longer see. <a href="https://medium.com/modern-women/from-light-to-darkness-mommy-to-your-mother-a-blind-moms-power-of-invisibility-6ced65d884ab">Click Here</a>