After suffering from a brain aneurysm and glaucoma, Jeanetta Price lost her sight when she was 25 years old.
She says she’s grateful to God and her eye doctors that she has the gift of sight.
Price recently had her driver’s license renewed and bought a new car months after she got a scleral contact lens put in her right eye.
"Blessed is an understatement, words can't even describe how grateful I am to receive the opportunity to see better again," Price said.
Price got her contact lens from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She described the moments she walked out of the college.
"I was just like, oh my God! Look at the trees, the sky, the beauty of nature. Some things that I believe that when I had sight at the beginning of my life, I just really didn't appreciate," Price said.
According to Dr. Keith Manuel at the Baylor College of Medicine, scleral lenses are large diameter hard contact lenses that sit on the white part of the eye.
A gap between the cornea is filled with fluid that acts as a cushion for the lens and it allows Price to see.
Friends around her like Rikesha Duriso saw that Price's condition wasn't something she used to hold her back.
"She didn't let the blindness affect her, she still was going to work and she was still going to school," Duriso said.
Price received a bachelor’s and master’s degree. She’s currently a teacher and is the president of the National Federation of the Blind’s Beaumont chapter.
Price believes she accomplished many things while she was blind.
"My whole life changed but I accomplished more in my blind journey. That's why I say, it took for me to lose sight to gain vision, because I accomplished so much more," Price said.
Price plans on staying in her role with the National Federation of the Blind.
Price offers anyone who’s suffering from blindness to attend meetings at Sertino’s in Beaumont on the second Saturday of every month from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.