{"id":5827,"date":"2017-05-01T00:03:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T07:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.medicaleyecenter.com\/?p=5827"},"modified":"2017-05-01T00:03:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T07:03:24","slug":"curt-schlossers-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.medicaleyecenter.com\/2017\/05\/01\/curt-schlossers-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Curt Schlosser\u2019s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Curt-Schlosser.jpg\" alt=\"Curt-Schlosser\" width=\"940\" height=\"325\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5828\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a young man, Curt was diagnosed with <a href=\"\/eye-care-education\/keratoconus\/\">keratoconus<\/a>, a degenerative disease that causes the cornea of the eye to thin and bulge. Over the years, Curt has received a total of four <a href=\"\/cornea\/\">corneal transplants<\/a>, including one in 2013, which was performed by Medical Eye Center corneal specialists <a href=\"\/our-providers\/matt-oliva-md\/\">Drs. Matt Oliva<\/a> and <a href=\"\/our-providers\/john-welling-md\/\">John Welling<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot imagine how radically my life would be different if I lost my vision after having such a great life with vision,\u201d says Curt. \u201cMy vision is my most valuable sense, I guess because it has been threatened. That\u2019s why I want to help others see through the hands of Drs. Welling and Oliva.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cureblindness.org\/eye-on-the-world\/profiles\/donor-spotlight-curt-schlosser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a young man, Curt was diagnosed with keratoconus, a degenerative disease that causes the cornea of the eye to thin and bulge. Over the years, Curt has received a total of four corneal transplants, including one in 2013, which was performed by Medical Eye Center corneal specialists Drs. Matt Oliva and John Welling. \u201cI &#8230; <a title=\"Curt Schlosser\u2019s Story\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.medicaleyecenter.com\/2017\/05\/01\/curt-schlossers-story\/\" aria-label=\"More on Curt Schlosser\u2019s Story\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.medicaleyecenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.medicaleyecenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.medicaleyecenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.medicaleyecenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.medicaleyecenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.medicaleyecenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.medicaleyecenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.medicaleyecenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.medicaleyecenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}