CHAPTER FIVE :JULY, 2011
Over the next two weeks, Alex’s patience was severely tested, as numerous measurements were taken and software tweaked to optimise the quality and reliability of the tiny chips. He was desperate to reach the point where he could see something, anything. To him, the past few months of blackness had seemed an eternity, even to the point where he had difficulty remembering what it was like to have normal vision. Just to see the rich greens of grass or bright, blue skies seemed far too difficult to recollect. His frustration, together with his continuing headaches had been making him feel quite irritable and ill-tempered, but, somehow, he managed to repress his inner anger.
True to her word, Jen retained a keen interest and, when she was not working, spent many hours
