EditorialAdam Burns works with Samantha Lewis on an eyesight exercise during a physical therapy session at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Burr Ridge, Ill., Oct. 8, 2021. (Alex Wroblewski/The New York Times)
EditorialJessica Lauser, a three-time United States blind chess champion, holds up a chess piece in her Kansas City, Mo., apartment on Dec. 18, 2020. (Barrett Emke/The New York Times)
EditorialMarion Sheppard, 73, who lost her eyesight in her early 40s and leads line-dancing classes for visually impaired people, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, March 9, 2020. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
EditorialMarion Sheppard, 73, who lost her eyesight in her early 40s and leads line-dancing classes for visually impaired people, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, March 9, 2020. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
EditorialEXCLUSIVE: Robbery victim, 23, left blind after being shot in the face, has the 3cm-long bullet pulled out through his NOSTRIL by surgeons who did it without a single incision