UCLA撰稿人John Harlow第二次失明：右眼20年前先盲，左眼如今仅余约两成视力
加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）《UCLA Magazine》2026年秋季号刊出该刊撰稿人 John Harlow 的自述长文，并被 UCLA 11月4日的每日要闻简报列为头条推荐：这位住在洛杉矶 Venice、2019年加入 UCLA 的英国记者，2025年7月遭遇第二次视神经中风，左眼视力大部丧失；20年前，他的右眼已先因此失明。
Harlow 回忆，2006年他任伦敦《星期日泰晤士报》记者时，右眼出现阴影却未在意，次日醒来发现右眼95%视力已经失去，病因是前部缺血性视神经病变——视神经供血被血栓阻断。医生当时说复发概率约17%；2025年7月的一个夏夜，血栓再度堵住左眼视神经。他如今没有周边视力，左眼仅余约两成视力，阅读超过15分钟就会头痛。UCLA Jules Stein 眼科研究所的医生认为，他眼球后部的视盘结构天生偏窄、属高风险型，神经眼科医生 Michael Gilhooley 参与了他的诊治。据美国疾控中心数据，全美约有600万盲人；每年约5,700名美国人因这种视神经病变部分或完全失明。
失明之后，Harlow 在 UCLA 校园里找到一个新的群体。UCLA 无障碍教育中心主任 Spencer Scruggs 介绍，该校随时有数十名视障师生，每年约有7,000名学生向中心寻求学业便利安排。同为视障者的戏剧影视学院四年级学生 Itohan Ediae 出生时患有白化病并伴有眼球震颤，今年早些时候走上了学院时装秀的T台；2020届校友 Brandon Shin 5岁与12岁时先后失去双眼视力，现靠回声定位在校体育中心练习柔术。校方人力资源部门为 Harlow 配了大按键的无障碍键盘，Braille Institute 帮他调整了手机设置，语音朗读成了他继续写作的工具。
Harlow 计划今年年底从 UCLA 退休。他在文中写道，自己已不再每天醒来时害怕彻底失明，相信随着适应，生活会继续变好。
（来源：加州大学洛杉矶分校）
UCLA Writer John Harlow Loses Sight in His Second Eye, 20 Years After the First
LOS ANGELES, California - UCLA Magazine's Fall 2026 issue carries a first-person account by its writer John Harlow, featured as the lead item in UCLA's Daily Highlights briefing on November 4. Harlow, a British journalist who lives in Venice, Los Angeles, and joined UCLA in 2019, suffered a second optic stroke in July 2025 that took most of the sight in his left eye; the same affliction had blinded his right eye 20 years earlier.
In 2006, while working as a reporter for The Sunday Times of London, Harlow ignored a crescent shadow in his right eye and woke the next day to find he had lost 95 percent of its sight. The cause was anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, in which a blood clot blocks blood flow to the optic nerve. Doctors put the chance of recurrence at about 17 percent; on a summer night in July 2025, a clot struck his left eye. He now has no peripheral vision and roughly 20 percent sight remaining in the left eye, and cannot read for more than 15 minutes without a headache. Physicians at the UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute say the disk at the back of his eye is anatomically narrow, putting him at higher risk; neuro-ophthalmologist Michael Gilhooley is among his doctors. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 6 million Americans are blind, and some 5,700 Americans lose sight each year to this optic nerve condition.
After losing his sight, Harlow found a new community on campus. Spencer Scruggs, director of UCLA's Center for Accessible Education, says a few dozen visually impaired students and staff are on campus at any given time, and about 7,000 Bruins a year seek accommodations through the center. Itohan Ediae, a fourth-year theater, film and television student born with albinism and nystagmus, walked the school's fashion runway earlier this year. Brandon Shin, class of 2020, lost sight in both eyes by age 12 and now practices jujitsu at the campus recreation center using echolocation. UCLA's human resources staff provided Harlow with a large-key accessible keyboard, the Braille Institute adjusted his phone settings, and text-to-speech tools have kept him writing.
Harlow plans to retire from UCLA at the end of this year. He writes that he no longer wakes each morning terrified of total blindness, and believes life will keep improving as he adjusts.
(Source: UCLA)
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