Meet our Patchers

Poppy is four years old and lives in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Miss Poppy wears her eye patch for two hours a day at preschool, with her Mum, Patty, popping one on before she drops her off. 

  Layla is one and a half years old and was born with Persistent Fetal Vasculature (PFV) (also called persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous (PHPV)) and Congenital Cataracts.   This brave little girl had her first surgery at only six weeks old and secondary surgery for scar tissue at four months old 😮...

Max is 6 years old and started patching for 2 hours a day in August after being diagnosed with Amblyopia. His mum, Emily, says he likes to spend his patch time drawing on the road with chalk, building forts with their play couch and jumping on pillows with his brother. He also...

Elle is 3 years old and is very new to patching and wearing glasses. Her mum Sian says "She’s still getting used to it but loves picking out which pretty patch to wear". Way to go Elle! We can't wait to watch you on your vision journey ❤️

Ada is nearly three and needs to patch for at least half a day every day (mostly) to help improve the vision in her left eye, in addition to wearing glasses. When she was only 3 months old, her parents noticed a white spot in this eye, which was later diagnosed as...

Harry is 3 and a half and has been patching since he was only 6 months old due to a Congenital Fourth Nerve Palsy in his left eye. This basically means the muscles in his eye are not as strong as they should be, making it harder for it to move. When...

Sadie is nearly three and has been patching her eye since she was a baby due to a congenital fibrovascular pupillary membrane. Basically, this means there is a thin, fibrous tissue covering the pupil of Sadie's eye, which can block or distort the light entering the eye, leading to blurry or reduced...