1. Keep in mind that you'll need to make your presence known in some way when you're on her blind side. She's probably already shaken up from the accident and people popping up out of nowhere is pretty startling until you get used to it.

2. If you're out somewhere together, offer to walk on her blind side and let her take your arm if she wants to. Bumping into strangers and objects can be embarrassing and stressful.

3. Just throwing a Nerf ball back and forth with my family helped me improve my coordination and adjust to the lack of depth perception. When and if she's up for it, that would be a good way to support her.

4. Spend some time going through your normal at-home routine with one eye covered. It'll give you a first-hand idea of what needs she may have.

I cannot remember seeing from 2 eyes, but I can assure you I can do pretty much anything I want. I might not be able to get into the military and I'm not sure whether I'm allowed to fly a plane, but in my normal life I have no problem whatsoever.

Feel free to shoot your questions

Be considerate to her if she does need help but I wouldn’t treat her any different than you do now. Losing your site is one thing. Having people bring it up constantly can be annoying. I haven’t even told everyone about my sight loss and no one can tell from looking at me. I avoid things like sports that could get me hurt due to my decreased depth perception. Treat her like you normally would. I can still do everything I could before. It just takes some getting used to.

Blindness isn’t the end of the world. Totally blind here and I live a full and fulfilling life so it is very possible for sure. I am very independent and capable.

As long her other eye is ok there's hope i think maybe she should ask in university if she would be approved as surgeon later after study to work. Studying won't be a big problem but practical things can be and the most: other people.

I quite suddenly list vision at 15 yro, adjusting to it taken 3 yrs physically much more years mentally although I knew it could have been happened someday. First months vere a blur for me I closed myself in my room and later in bed, slept, eaten. My brother bought from his own money every week small bag of sweets to cheer me up but I hardly noticed, some people visited me but i had almost no topic to talk anymore. My dreams, my plans ended suddenly. School arranged individual lessons at home and somehow I managed it with good grades. I didn't wanted to go to special school for blind very far away we found normal integration school not that far.

- I did CBT (quite useless),
- meet with other low vision and blind teens and their families on weekends (bit more helpful but they were living on special schools for the blind so we had few common topics they were timid and closed),
- did mobility training with cane - very helpful i used cane sparingly when i felt uneasy for example roads and busy streets to show drivers that hey i can't see you on one side! It saved me so many times although at that time I could still see with other eye not so bad and read books you can't always count on friends and family that they will be there as a guide for you all the time it's not possible. When I didn't needed it i folded it and put to my backpack. I used it while getting up and downstairs - oh my neck and upper back muscular were so much more strained when i tried walking without it, i awkwardly tried to automatically compensation lack of depth perception with wrong body postures oh and i fallen down the stairs few times. Walking with cane fixed that. Ambutech makes full color custom canes it doesn't have to be all white.
- for depth perception you really need 2 eyes 1 is not enough it's physically impossible like you can't really hear stereo if you're deaf in one ear you can train coordination of both hands, reflexes, better body feel. There are monoculars, one eye microscopes, great portable CCTVs - digital magnifiers - one eye strains faster while reading books not only digital ones. Frequent pauses every 30 mins 3 min break, tech aids if she needs any, blue light/computer glasses - better are frequent breaks and enough fluids trough the day, lower brightness and contrast a bit i know from experience
- she has get trough it herself and accept it it can take long time it varies there's no one fits all. She might even change plans and find something new
- she has to build strong self to fight off all negative comments she will hear from the day one, indestructible defence that no bad words will crush, she will hear negativity about that she won't be good enough at studying, at work, that she's taking etc yes there will be nice people out there but she has to be prepared to actively defend herself and be her own advocate be vocal don't hide problems seek help if needed move the mountain if necessary. Just cont on yourself not on others. I was studying myself and although there was blind professor out there so other professors should be more emphatic, there was special group for students with disability rights and 2 CCTVs for whole university i had lots of problems there. Same in the school for the blind LOL which was a surprise.

I was already visually impaired before but I had an accident that resulted in vision loss in my right eye about 6 months ago.

Now, I'm okay with it, but the worst part was coming to terms with the permance of it. Vision loss wasnt a problem, but vision loss that could never be fixed was? Considering I already was permanently impaired and there was no treatment, this really shocked me! I imagine your sister will feel this.

I wore an eye patch for about 6 weeks, it was mainly for eye pain from light, but that stopped after. I felt more nervous being in public with the patch though! If your sister needs it, encourage her not to worry about people seeing the eye patch, it'll help people realise she can't see and if she needs it, it will help.

She should speak to an opharmologist about her field of vision, I was given exercises to improve the muscles around my eyes. (However this was for my original condition, not the accident, and was already ruled out as a treatment by then, so not sure if this would apply), all vision loss is different and the best people to help are the specialists. Encourage her to ask any and all questions, as they can help her!

Lastly, 6 months later and people still don't believe me when I say I can't see, even though I have some scarring!! It'll take time, but she will adjust and it will be okay :)

Edited to add: my grandmother with one eye prefers people to walk and stand on her good side.
I don't mind as my left eye was my bad before.

Take your time, take baby steps, let her get used to it, she will need time, do not go to fast. Best of luck guys❤❤