An accountant with perfect vision was effectively “blinded” for a year after he blinked in strong sunlight only for his eyelids to snap shut until Botox injections enabled him to see again.
Forced to prise his eyelids open manually, or squint to give himself a crack of vision, Robert Graham, 67, did his best to keep functioning – playing his situation down, partly believing it would be temporary and partly through fear.
