Eye Care Patient Stories
January 14, 2016
Cornea Transplant Clears Blurry, Clouded World for Patient
Jan. 14, 2016 | Every morning, Robbie Smith, 37, gets a vivid reminder of how debilitating his eyesight used to be. Before he inserts a pair of special corrective contact lenses, “I’m only able to see a few inches from my face,” he said. At age 10, Smith, of Little Rock, was diagnosed with keratoconus,…
November 24, 2015
Corneal Transplant Lets Hensley Woman Read Again
Nov. 24, 2015 | Jamie Whitaker, of Hensley, knew her eyesight was diminishing. As someone who loved to read, Whitaker could tell she was having more difficulty making out the words. It reached the point where she had trouble reading road signs and distinguishing whether an oncoming vehicle was a truck or car. Still, she…
August 3, 2015
Advanced Lens Gives Patients with Astigmatism New Look on Life
“For as long as I can remember, I was terribly nearsighted. I was the kindergarten student with the heavy, thick glasses falling off my nose. I was 10 years old when I got my first pair of contact lenses, but I couldn’t sleep in them. At Girl Scout Camp, I put my glasses in the…
January 11, 2015
Riding into Clear Vision
Before treatment at the UAMS Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Carolyn Hopkins’ vision was so poor that she needed assistance doing ordinary tasks that most people take for granted. While she was comfortable in her home in Pine Bluff, she needed her husband’s assistance in the grocery store to find her way around the…
January 8, 2015
Comprehensive Eye Care Under One Roof
When Peggy Hundley first started having eye problems in the late 1980s, she turned to the UAMS Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute. After multiple tests, she was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, a vascular condition that can affect many organs, including the eyes. Hundley was puzzled by the diagnosis and began an extensive search to learn…
January 6, 2015
Sight Changing, Life Changing
Palmalee Byrd was the little boy that all the other children made fun of on the playground. When he went to school for the first time, he couldn’t keep up because he was unable to see to read the board. He returned to school the next year with very thick glasses and was teased every…
December 22, 2014
When the Professor Becomes the Patient
Knowing his grandmother lost her sight in the 1960s due to glaucoma, Richard Zraick, Ph.D., sought the best in eye care after he became an adult. And when he became a professor of speech-language pathology in the College of Health Related Professions at UAMS in 1997, Richard had no idea just how much he would need the…
December 12, 2014
The Drive to Maintain Independence
For senior citizens, seeing clearly is critical in maintaining independence. With a need to be able to read labels and signs, perform tasks to maintain a household and see clearly to drive, eye care services are extremely important to active retirees like James W. (“Jim”) Bell. Since Jim had watched his father go blind and subsequently suffer deep…
November 27, 2014
Cycling to Benefit the UAMS Jones Eye Institute
Living in the Natural State offers an abundance of beautiful scenery for an avid runner and cyclist like Emil Mackey. Since he is grateful to the doctors at the UAMS Jones Eye Institute for restoring the quality of his vision, Emil chaired the second annual Cycle for Sight endurance ride to help raise awareness and funding for…
November 24, 2014
Pilot Could Not Have Asked for More
Mac Faulkner, Patient At UAMS our goal is to provide the best care for every patient every day. All the awards and accolades can’t tell the UAMS story better than the words of our patients. Mac Faulkner recommends the Retina Services at UAMS: “After bumping into the kitchen door jamb one day, I noticed I…
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