Shriners Childrens Hospital is part of the problem.

  • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    My wife was born in small-town Texas with such a bad eye muscle defect that she would have been legally blind and unable to learn to read. She was walking down the street in the closest bigger city with her family in like 1989, and a doctor that just happened to be developing an experimental surgery (now standard) for that exact condition just happened to walk by and notice. The Shriners facilitated the surgery, and now she’s fine.

    • Mehrunes_Laser [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      That’s awesome! Super lucky too. Like, what are chances? For me it was pretty standard. My family Dr gave us a referral to them, and they took the case. I don’t remember any of the surgeries since they all happened before I was 2.