Laila Phelia woke up one day last season in Austin, Texas and couldn’t see. A dark cloud had descended on her vision and panic quickly set in.
“Crazy thing is it happened, literally, in the blink of an eye,” Phelia told SB Nation. “I woke up one day and my eyelids were like a curtain — all black. Couldn’t see anything above or below. My vision was all distorted.”
Phelia rushed to an eye doctor where she was told she had a detached retina and needed emergency surgery. Doctors told Phelia that her injury wasn’t caused by something that happened in a practice or game, but rather genetics. Her retina had
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