Jennifer Matthews: Moving through a kitchen may not seem like a great accomplishment, but for Suzanne Coughlin, it is.
Suzanne Coughlin: It's the little things, but they make such a huge difference. I don't walk into walls anymore. I don't step on the poor dog anymore.
Jennifer Matthews: A stroke, two years ago, left Suzanne with a condition known as hemianopia. What she sees or doesn't see to the left is the equivalent of what you see behind you.
Suzanne Coughlin: I see nothing on my left side. No fuzzy, no black, nothing.
Jennifer Matthews: Now, with a new addition to her glasses, Suzanne's world has grown. In the same way, the prism shifts the top of this clip to the right when placed on the top and bottom of glasses, it brings objects from the left into a patient's line of vision.
Dr. Eli Peli: When they notice in the periphery, an obstacle or a potential risk, they turn their head and eyes and look at it through the center again.
Male Speaker: I can see more things on my left than I would normally be seeing.
Jennifer Matthews: This virtual mall gives a scientific measure of how much it helps in detecting and avoiding obstacles.
Dr. Eli Peli: We can record their eye movement and we can tell whether they avoid these obstacles because the device made it visible or because of chance occurrence.
Jennifer Matthews: So far, it looks good on paper and in real life.
Suzanne Coughlin: I do pick up things that I wasn't picking up at all before.
Jennifer Matthews: Suzanne admits the adjustment hasn't been easy and even keeping food on the plate can be hard but she is happy to keep trying.
Suzanne Coughlin: So I've just been dealt this and I am going to deal with it.
Jennifer Matthews: And Dylan is happy, she can see him now. This is Jennifer Matthews reporting.
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