Michael Regilio

No, you don't.

I was basically born blind in my right eye with a condition called keratoconus.

The story gets even weirder because I had it severely from birth in my right eye and not at all in my left eye, which is...

So unheard of that when they finally diagnosed me when I was like 19 years old, because they didn't know what the heck it was when I was a kid, that when I went back to my eye doctor at Mass Eye and Ear in Boston, there was a line of doctors down the hall leading to my doctor's office.

And when I got into the office, he's like, can my colleagues take a look at you?

And one after another, all these doctors just lined up and were like, what the heck?

And, yeah, after a lifetime of basically being blind in my right eye, I got a cataract in my left eye.

The surgeon said, hey, once we get this all taken care of, give me a shot at the other eye.

I think a cornea transplant can give you vision.

And I said...

You know what?

Let's give it a shot.

Let's see what depth... This depth perception I've heard so much about.

Yeah.

Wow.

Give it a shot.

So I got the surgery.

Don't recommend.

The first week was crazy.

I had no white of my eye.