Virtual Legacy Garden Honors Eye Donors

In 2020, 2,395 heroes gave the gift of sight through eye donation with Saving Sight. As another way to celebrate our donors and their families, Saving Sight launched the Virtual Legacy Garden in May. A virtual memorial is an online space created to remember those who have passed and we hope our legacy garden will bloom for years to come. This served as an additional way to remember and honor our donors, especially in a year of limited human interaction.

We encouraged donor families to contribute their own garden themed photos in remembrance of their loved ones, along with a special story or quote to be memorialized in the Legacy Garden on our Instagram page.

The garden is open, and families can contribute to it at any time to continue in helping it bloom. You can learn more about the legacy garden on our website by clicking here.

Cheryl Shares Her Brother’s Legacy as an Eye Donor

During National Donate Life Month in April, Cheryl joined Saving Sight for an audio interview to share about her connection to organ, eye and tissue donation and her brother’s legacy as an eye donor.

Scot’s legacy began as living kidney donor for Cheryl in 1997. “For him, it was something that he could do to really help me but also just to show his character and to do something so positive. Kidney donation was such an important thing in our family, and donation in general is just so near and dear to our hearts, that we wanted Scot’s legacy to include giving life to others even after he had passed.”

Cheryl says Scot’s legacy lives on as a donor. “I imagine another person being able to see because of Scot. Two people have gone from living in darkness to a window being opened where they can see so many things.” Listen to Cheryl’s story. As a business partner and cofounder of Vital Tears, Saving Sight is proud to serve as the processor for all Vital Tears orders. Vital Tears is the leader in autologous serum eye drops (ASEDs), more commonly known as serum tears. We we offer a quick, hassle-free, and affordable way to obtain serum tears. We empower patients who suffer from ocular surface conditions with access to these critical eye drops. Since 2015, we have provided Vital Tears to patients in the United States looking to treat their ocular surface conditions.

As one patient shared with us, “Vital Tears just makes the whole process easy. It’s changed my life actually. I think the billing is very transparent and easy to understand. It’s nice there are several options.”