about dry eye stories

Some years ago on a long car ride that wasn't supposed to be about business we (Aidan and Rebecca) first envisioned collecting dry eye stories.

We were inspired by the potential of personal dry eye stories to help to establish hope and empowerment for patients and a counter-narrative to conventional medical interpretation of patients' experiences. With our various interests in oral history, patient advocacy, and collecting data, we envisioned a website packed with your photos and your stories that would highlight the specific realities of patients – with the intention of documenting adversity, resilience, and resistance. All too aware of the silence, depression, and quality of life changes dry eye causes, we hope our collective voices will help to demystify the often invisible lived realities of those living with dry eyes. 

This website is hosted by The Dry Eye Foundation.

If you have benefitted from the stories shared here, or from sharing your own, please consider donating a little something to help us keep this going. Thank you for your support. We appreciate you!

Yours,

The Dry Eye Stories Team

who we are

Aidan Moore is a founding member of the Dry Eye Foundation. The visionary for this project, he sees oral history as a powerful way to counter institutionalized medical narratives with subjectivity and lived experience. He designs and maintains this site along with editing and receiving submissions.

Rebecca Petris has been working in dry eye patient education, support and advocacy ever since she developed dry eye, eye pain and vision loss from LASIK eye surgery in 2001.