February 2022 – According to the Arts

Retinal Hemorrhage:
The Biomedical and The Literary

According to the art: I compare a classic medical text description of a retinal hemorrhage from StatPearls with a literary description from the novel Seeing Red.

Seeing Red

What These Works Say

According to the art: The story follows the plight of a young, diabetic woman experiencing a retinal hemorrhage and what comes after clinically and socially. What a retinal hemorrhage is like as it occurs and what the prospect of blindness is like afterward are featured. How both can become a proof of love is intertwined.