Seeing -- and believing

Contra Costa Times reports:

When Dean Lloyd, a 68-year-old Palo Alto lawyer, was in his mid-30s, a hereditary eye disease began taking his sight. By his late 40s, he was completely blind.

So when a clinical trial was started to test an artificial retina that would restore at least partial sight, he seized the opportunity. It didn't hurt that he was a longtime science aficionado and fascinated by the new technology.