Setting: Norway, 1996. Unni Wikan works a stressful job and is married. She has a son and was at home alone with him during this time of the incident. One Sunday morning Wikan’s eye shadowed over and her vision became unclear. First assumption was stress. Patient has been very healthy all her life with rare instance of illness. The pain and shadowing of the eye continued until she called an optometrist. The Doctor said it was nothing to worry about and made her schedule an appointment for a few days later. The discomfort still did not cease so she got a second opinion and was rushed to more immediate care. It turns out her retina had been separated from the eye; which is a very serious condition, often resulting in blindness. The surgery was a failure and to this day she has no vision in her right eye.
Analysis:
Unni Wikan used her case to symbolically show that this “eye” disease was not a physical illness but rather a personal one affecting her “I” or self.......
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