When Sight Heals the Brain
A Memoir of a Brain Injury Journey and the Visual Road Home
by Ingryd Lorenzana
Description
A clear path to recovering from mild traumatic brain injury
We are told that time heals all wounds. While time is an unavoidable aspect of any healing process, with brain injury, that approach is not only dismissive, but it can be dangerously misleading.
For half a century, Dr. Ingryd Lorenzana navigated the lonely aftermath of a childhood head injury, her life defined by a single, unanswered question: "Why is everything always so hard?"
The answer finally came, not just from her relentless pursuit of knowledge as a neuro-optometrist, but also as a survivor.
For millions, the root of lifelong struggles with anxiety, focus, and learning isn't a lack of ability or even willpower; it's the ghost of a long-forgotten injury. A single fall, a bump on the head, an event dismissed as a simple childhood "Owie," can leave a silent, invisible wound and years of unexplained, unnecessary difficulties with fundamental functions.
In When Sight Heals the Brain: A Memoir of a Brain Injury Journey and the Visual Road Home, Dr. Lorenzana offers a paradigm-shifting truth: Time doesn't heal; it REVEALS. The struggles that emerge years after a mild traumatic brain injury are not a new failure, but rather, a delayed revelation of the original trauma.
As both survivor and neuro-optometrist, Dr. Lorenzana is the ideal guide through this difficult terrain. She provides the missing link between a forgotten fall and a lifetime of challenges, revealing how treatment through the visual system can hold the key to unlocking brain optimization and recovery. This is not just her story of traumatic brain injury, or TBI; it is a revolutionary guide to understanding the silent, and often undiagnosed, epidemic of brain-injury-related difficulties and a beacon of hope for all who have felt lost in the dark.
Part medical memoir, part scientific guide, this is a story of hope and healing, a call to action, and a promising approach that provides answers to the often-overlooked problems many have grappled with for years. The journey to understanding and relief begins here.
What People Are Saying
"When Sight Heals the Brain is a deeply personal account of injury, adaptation, discovery, and
hope. Ingryd Lorenzana writes candidly about a life shaped by childhood trauma, a long-
unrecognized brain injury, and symptoms that followed her into adulthood. Yet the book is not
defined by what happened to her. Its real subject is what she chose to do next: keep
searching, keep learning, and remain open to the possibility that healing could continue."
-Doug Stephey, OD, MS
"I highly recommend When Sight Heals the Brain: A Memoir of a Brain Injury Journey and the Visual Road Home, to anyone interested in concussion recovery, the connection between vision and the brain, and the long journey of finding your way forward. This book is a deeply personal perspective from an eye doctor , Dr. Ingryd Loranzana, who has spent her career helping others while healing from a childhood traumatic brain injury."
-Diane Tucker
"Dr. Lorenzana's book was brilliantly written. The first half of the book, her story, is intensely emotional and evocative in order to convey the experiences someone with a traumatic brain injury goes through. It also was peppered with symptoms we often overlook or not associate with a brain injury.
The last half of the book is an educational piece that professionals, as well as the public, can be aware of and learn from.
As an optometrist, this book has deepened my knowledge and it lead me to be more cognizant of the symptoms patients are presenting in the exam room, and to do more eye and vision investigating with my skills. A HIGHLY recommended book!"
-Debby Rodriguez
"Dr. Lorenzana has written FANTASTIC revelations about a persistent and passionate doctor who arduously deals with a childhood brain injury as she quests to reach her educational goals. She draws you into her visual learning dysfunction with a realistic description that will open your "eyes" and your heart."
-Jill Ingelese, OD