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When author Nora Gallagher noticed a slight blur at the periphery of her right eye, she took a trip to the doctor — and found out she would go blind if the condition were left untreated.

After she found out about her inflamed optic nerve, Gallagher said she felt as if she were entering a new world.

She wrote about it in her latest memoir, "Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic."

"I passed ordinary people on the street and I felt as if a thin glass wall had fallen between me and them," she writes. "It was as if I had crossed a border without a passport ... Illness sweeps aside the life that was, and what coping mechanisms have worked before. Suddenly, the world is going on and you are not."

Gallagher joins The Daily Circuit to discuss her memoir and how her illness redefined her faith.

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