Welcome!

Hello! Welcome to Foresight’s blog page! I’m Bianca, the founder, and this blog is meant to serve a number of purposes that is free for anyone to access. Here I will tell you about my medical and fitness journeys and how they have become intertwined as one over the last 5 years. My path to strength has prompted the realization that all the work I’ve done for myself, the doctors appointments I’ve struggled through, the workouts I felt would never get easier, the hours of research that finally put me in a position of power over my own body and health, would be wasted stuck in my head. 

There are so many of us out there, approximately 180 million, that have Glaucoma and are without a resource on how to maintain the health of our bodies as a whole; I’m talking about specific, step-by-step advice as opposed to generic words like “exercise more.” What does “exercise more” mean when your doctor is sitting across from you saying not to lift heavy weights or put yourself in any strenuous positions? Where do you go from there? How do you leave the office with the confidence to choose an exercise regimen? If that’s the only information you have, then you don’t. I didn’t, and it took me 14 years to figure it out. 

As a child, I heard a lot of “she’s young, her body will bounce back,” and that simply isn’t true if you don’t keep moving. If you don’t use the muscles in your body, you lose them. And then you end up in physical therapy with sciatica at 19 and your friends look at you sideways when you’re out of breath after a single flight of stairs. At 19, I stumbled into my first pilates class, and that same day I left in tears of relief, signed up for instructor training with zero background in sports or exercise (I was, and still am, a theatre kid), and now at 25 it is my goal to share with other patients the joy and relief in practicing pilates. I have done all the trial and error for you, and now you have Foresight! Like a lot of things, pilates can be safe for Glaucoma patients if modified correctly, but the beauty is that pilates is already low-impact by nature. Anyone can - and should - do pilates, but Foresight is unique because the workouts are pre-tailored/modified so that you don’t have to wonder if you’re doing something you shouldn’t for your eyes. Does this mean the workouts are easier? Absolutely NOT. Pilates is always challenging when done correctly, so if you don’t “feel it,” something is off. More about this in future posts.

In this blog page I will share as much information with you all as I possibly can, linking resources, articles I find helpful, research I’ve done, and much more so that no one ever has to go through what I did. I spent my adolescent life in chronic pain despite the phenomenal medical team I had. They saved my vision, but I saved my quality of life. Welcome to Foresight, you’re next!