As soon as he could walk, Braille's time was spent playing in his father's workshop. At the age of three, he was playing with some of the tools, trying to make holes in a piece of leather with an awl. Squinting closely at the surface, he pressed down hard to drive the point in, and the awl glanced across the tough leather and stabbed him in one of his eyes. A local physician bound and patched the affected eye and even arranged for Braille to be met the next day in Paris by a surgeon, but no treatment could save the damaged organ. In agony, the young boy suffered for weeks as the wound became severely infected. He eventually lost sight in the other eye, likely due to sympathetic ophthalmia.
As soon as he could walk Braille's time was spent playing in his father's workshop At the age of three he was playing with some of the tools trying to make holes in a piece of leather with an awl Squinting closely at the surface he pressed down hard to drive the point in and the awl glanced across the tough leather and stabbed him in one of his eyes A local physician bound and patched the affected eye and even arranged for Braille to be met the next day in Paris by a surgeon but no treatment could save the damaged organ In agony the young boy suffered for weeks as the wound became severely infected He eventually lost sight in the other eye likely due to sympathetic ophthalmia