Mi ojo especial: Un libro para niños sobre prótesis oculares by Maria Gomez-Lozano

Hay muchas cosas ue hacen ue Bruno sea especial Le encanta montar en bici y jugar al fútbol es un hermano mayor estupendo y le apasionan los animales También tiene una prótesis ocular En este libro descubrirás por ué Bruno lleva su prótesis cómo la cuida cómo protege sus ojos de posibles accidentes y cómo es una visita al ocularistaTener un ojo tan especial essolo unade las muchas cosas ue hacen a Bruno único Este libro lleno de optimismo será un gran recurso para cualuier niño con visión monocular tenga o no una prótesis ocular cascarilla escleral o lentilla cosmética“Este atractivo libro ilustrado escrito con sensibilidad y consideración será un gran recurso para cualuier niño ue se enfrenta a la perspectiva de tener una prótesis ocular y es una fuente útil de información para cualuier persona ue tenga curiosidad por saber más sobre cómo es vivir con un ojo artificial —LittleParachutescomMi ojo especial ha sido galardonado con el prestigioso ★Little Parachutes Gold Star Award★ y está también disponible en inglés My Special Eye italiano Il mio occhio speciale y holandés Mijn speciale oog Precio recomendado excluyendo gastos de envío €15US17£13Para más información visitalittleparachutescombooksmy special eye o facebookcomMySpecialEyeFrom the Author The story behind My Special Eye bookMy Special Eye was created a few years after my son lost vision in his left eye when he was 2 years old One year later he had surgery to replace his eye with a prosthetic eye It is an understatement to say that this affected our family deeply Apart from the shock and pain for the suffering of our child and the anxiety for his future we found ourselves dealing with something completely unexpected that we knew nothing about Ocular prosthesis scleral shell hydroxyapatite implant uveitis phthisis bulbi band keratopathy evisceration enucleation suddenly all these terms became part of our day to day vocabularyMy Special Eye is the children's book we would have liked to have at that time It will be a useful resource for any child with vision in one eye a prosthetic eye or a scleral shell Explaining a child that he or she needs an ocular prosthesis is not easy However when the time came we found that our son and his sibling were way ahead of us in terms of acceptance resilience and positivity Also we soon realised that losing vision in one eye didn't limit our child in any way For him his prosthesis meant that now he had a special eye that could be taken in and out Nothingand nothing less I hope My Special Eye book will help monocular children and their families to realise that having a prosthetic eye is just one of the many things that make them so special and uniue