Five Years Blind: An Accidental Journey
A Memoir
As a woman who spent her adult life based in New York City, working primarily in dance, traveling, and creating, she was always up for an adventure. This book is about a doozie of a trip she could not have imagined.
About Whitney
Whitney Trilling has been a college teacher, a choreographer, a general manager of a Broadway dance company, a production manager/unit coordinator and an editorial and staff manager for two national TV shows, an agent for major touring dance companies, a producer and director of her own shows, and a blind lady.
While staying with her boyfriend in the Hollywood Hills, she enjoyed a good life, playing tennis, and working as an agent in the performing arts. Fun. She also had a lung infection. For this, the doctor mistakenly kept her on a prescription drug, making her a one-in-a-million blinded by its side-effect.
She was a recipient of the Braille Institute’s Adjustment to Blindness Award, 2010.
About Five Years Blind
In 2008, Whitney Trilling was blinded from the side-effect of a prescription medication.
As she lost her independent life in the performing arts and joined the blind community, she gained insight into coping with trauma and learned that most of what we believe about blindness is myth. The truths are surprising. Most blind people see something.
After four years behind dark glasses, she became a one-in-a-million again when her optic nerve inexplicably began to heal—a medical miracle.
Through Whitney’s personal story, we witness blindness from the inside out, and receive guidance for those touched by vision loss. It is an inspiring testimony about expanded awareness and what it means to be human and live among others.
