NOTE: I sincerely apologize to Jeremy Szanton, for my commentary, now deleted, about his father’s death. My (mis)information was based on what I’d heard fifty years ago as a child and I sincerely regret any distress this must have caused him and his family.
So, “The finding raises the prospect that people with amblyopia, which affects contrast perception, could be treated with games. A trial has begun to test that theory.” So states an article in New Scientist.
I was a child with “lazy eye” and still today, can make my right eye wander off on its own by concentrated effort. But I was raised in a different era; threatened by my pediatrician, Dr. Szanton, with the prospect of an eyepatch, I did my eye-strengthening exercises. Eventually, the lazy eye was under control.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
through a glass darkly
I was quite surprised to hear that my father, Dr. Victor Szanton of Ansonia, Connecticut, comitted suicide, especially having been by his bedside in the New Haven Hospital when he passed away after a year long bout with cancer. Claiming that he comitted suicide borders (?) on slander and I would strongly suggest that a public apology is in order.
Jeremy Szanton
mans1@zahav.net.il
Mr. Szanton, I am so very sorry for any pain or anger I may have caused by my mention of your father. I simply should never have made such a remark regardless of whether it was true or false, and particularly in this case where it has been made obvious that this just was not true. I am sorry for the loss of your father, he was a good doctor as I can remember and from what I’ve read, a brilliant man. susan