Celebrities with Eye Problems
When we think about celebrities’ eye problems we immediately think of Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles. However, if we type “celebrities with eye problems” in Google it returns a long list of articles. Numerous celebrities have eye problems we don’t know about. Claude Monet suffered from cataracts for many years and during the past decades, a theory emerged that Van Gogh was color blind.

U2 Irish frontman, Bono was diagnosed with Glaucoma for more than 20 years, his signature tinted sunglasses which he wears indoors, have been known by many as a simple fashion statement. Bono admitted that he wears his sunglasses indoor because of his glaucoma condition that makes him sensitive to light and glare. Like Bono, Bill Cosby also has glaucoma that made him lose most of his vision.

Actor Johnny Depp wears myopic eyeglasses, however, he is only myopic in one eye and is nearly blind in the other. Whoopi Goldberg stated that she feels painful headaches and pressure in her eyes due to Glaucoma that she developed as she aged.

April is sports eye safety month and among the most infamous sports celebrities who had sports injuries are football player Orlando Brown in 1999 who was sidelined for three years after a damaged retina and optical nerve, baseball player Luis Salazar in 2011 lost his left eye, Baseball player Matt Imhof lost his right eye during routine training in 2016, and basketball player Akil Mitchell in 2017 when a poke in the face popped his left eyeball out of its socket.

Eye problems can be treated most of the time, however, when serious conditions cannot be treated they should never deter us from getting where we want to go in life. This week is Joseph Pulitzer’s birthday, who went blind at the end of his life due to a retinal detachment, yet he continued to manage his newspaper and wrote the story that anyone can read and painted a world so colorful that no one can forget.