CBS Evening News Features Our Jordy Patient

On February 18, 2000, Dan Rather’s Eye on America segment of the CBS Evening News featured our patient Marcia Gevers. Marcia was one of the first patients to be fit with the new Jordy System. Though profoundly visually impaired, Marcia’s Jordy now allow her to see the faces of her friends and lets her perform her duties as a rehabilitation teacher.

Our practice was the first in the world to receive the Jordy system. Dr. Windsor first tested the system on Marcia during a seminar that Dr. Windsor was conducting at Indiana University/Purdue University Regional Campus in Fort Wayne.

She was later evaluated by Dr. Windsor at the Vision Rehabilitation Clinic in Fort Wayne. Marcia had been a patient of Dr. Windsor for many years and also uses a Designs for Vision Microscopic bifocal and a conventional CCTV. Marcia's response to the system was amazing. Though she had used other low vision devices, the Jordy allowed her do and see things that none of the other systems could. When it appeared that cost might limit her ability to obtain the Jordy, her friends and an area Lion’s Club came together to raise the funds and were able to surprise her shortly before Christmas at the Tiny Tim Diner in Fort Wayne.

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