You may have asked yourself, but what ORGANS does Usher's affect?
Wow, really? If it wasn't obvious, I will explain anyway.
The first organ/ body part affected is your...... EAR (with all it's own inner function-able pieces).
What daily activities will I not be able to do, you may now wonder. If so then the answer to that one is HEAR and doing anything involving HEARING. Luckily, if you have type 2 or 3, you can get some help with that one from hearing aides. The type 1-ers aren't as lucky.
The second organ affected is your..... RETINA! What is a retina, you now want to know. Your retina is a light sensitive tissue in the back of you very own eyes, which allows you to see. To show how the retina is affected, I have another handy picture (this time with a caption!!!) I found on a website.
Photograph of the retina of a patient with Usher syndrome (left) compared to a normal retina (right). The optic nerve (arrow) looks very pale, the vessels (stars) are very thin and there is characteristic pigment, called bone spicules (double arrows).
Yes, that is what the inside of you eye looks like. Please don't tell me you are queasy.
This affects the daily activity of seeing! This sometimes starts with peripheral vision disappearing. Some of us are completely blind, while others are legally blind, a bit less severe.
Lastly, Usher's affects balance.
What daily activities does this affect? I dunno, anything involving movement! Luckily, balance is something that we can work on fixing more quickly/ efficiently then the other symptoms.
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