Childhood cancer survivor creates Blue Jays-themed "fun eye" for playoff season
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Toronto Blue Jays fan Logan Dorna has his eye on the prize. Literally.
The eight year-old from Richmond Hill is a survivor of childhood retinobalstoma, a rare form of eye cancer.
He lost his left eye when he just eight months and recently decided to get creative with his new ocular prosthetic.
Hence, the Blue Jays "fun eye".
Working his oculist, Logan and his family created a prosthetic that looks like a Blue Jays baseball.
While his "normal" glass eye is brown to match the colour of his surviving eye, Logan's fun, baseball-themed eye is one he plans on wearing for special occasions, including a Jays Day at his school in Richmond Hill.
It isn't over for the Blue Jays, it just feels like it is
His mom explains that they made the new eye, when they went to get a replacement for his current glass one.
When we went to get his new eye for this year we asked our oculist if he could have a fun eye, something that can make him feel good about himself, more motivated and he really wanted one.
As a survivor of retinoblastoma, Logan has to get a new prosthetic roughly two years. Once he turns eighteen, that changes to eight to ten years.
Logan hopes fun eye inspires conversation, reduces stigma
Beyond using the eye to celebrate his love of the Blue Jays, the aspiring outfielder hopes his baseball-themed ocular piece will inspire conversation and reduce the stigma around prosthetic body parts.
We don't want to hide this and create any kind of social stigma about it. And he's a patient ambassador for SickKids. We just want to continue encouraging him and making him feel good about his difference, that his difference is a strength.
In addition to being a big Blue Jays fan Logan, who had all his work done at Sick Kids hospital in Toronto, plays outfield for the Cardinals at the Richmond Hill Phoenix Baseball Club
Cheers to you Logan.
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