(Image: www.gofundme)Despite their best efforts, doctors couldn't save her sight and she is now unable to return to role as editor of her high school paper. "Doctors believe that the blood flow to the optic nerve was compromised, severely damaging one nerve and completely destroying the other. (Image: www.gofundme)"Her right eye experienced what in the brain would be similar to a stroke, obliterating her optic nerve and causing severe damage to the retina. "The substantial pressure in both eyes stretched the optic nerve, completely separating it from her right eye and compromising it beyond repair in the left." In July 2017 Jordyn was struck by the same illness on a family cruise and lost her sense of smell and taste.

Source: Daily Mirror January 05, 2019 23:37 UTC