Focus
A Memoir

This was an interesting look at a woman's emotional journey as she faces her rapid loss of sight. It almost reminded me of Kubler-Ross's description of the stages of death: shock, anger, bargaining, withdrawal, and then acceptance. Ricks initially seems to be in denial about the severity of her medi......more

This short book about Ingrid Ricks and the shocking diagnosis of Retinitis Pigmentosa( the degenerative eye disease that will eventually render her blind) she receives at age 37 , was of special interest to me for several reasons. First of all this author grew up very near where I now live in my loc......more

This book is a nice, quick read about the author becoming blind due to a disease. I liked this as I could somewhat relate since I have Lupus. No, I am not blind but I know what it is like to be labeled with a disease. And I know what it's like to have to give up things even though you don't want to......more

"Blind people terrified me. Every tap of their white cane or movement of their seeing-eye dog reminded me that they'd been robbed." So, Ingrid Ricks tells her story, in Focus A Memoir, of Retinitis Pigmentosa and its steady encroachment on her sight over a period of eight years. It could easily have......more

Very good book! You can feel that Ingrid put her heart & soul into this book!......more