5/28/2023 0 Comments Dr lisa sanders new york times![]() ![]() Thirty minutes later, the shape slowly started to fade, and the world resumed its familiar look and shape.īefore this, the woman had similar, but less severe, experiences. Then, the shape grew so large that it obstructed her vision almost entirely. On a trip to Italy, the patient-a professional violinist and teacher-noticed "a shimmering shape with jagged, irregular edges" clouding her vision, Sanders writes.Īccording to the patient, the points of the shape seemed as if they were twinkling as the starlike image continued to grow, while the inside of the glittering shape looked like the crystals in a kaleidoscope. When a 31-year-old woman with 20/20 vision suddenly started seeing "glistening star bursts" that made it impossible to see, her doctors investigated a variety of potential causes-until one doctor found "a mass about the size of a plum" in her brain scans, Lisa Sanders writes for the New York Times Magazine.Įxpedite patient diagnosis 'Glistening star bursts appeared weekly, then daily' Editor's note: This popular story from the Daily Briefing's archives was republished on Sep. ![]()
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