The process behind a donor’s generous gift to a blind or visually impaired recipient is a complex series of steps that require timely coordination between multiple stakeholders including hospital personnel, donor families, eye bank employees, coroners, funeral homes, and surgeons. The average time it took for us to recover, evaluate and prepare and distribute corneal tissue for surgery was just under 49 hours. The timeline presented here is meant to illustrate how a typical eye donation case plays out. CLICK HERE FOR THE AMAZING TIMELINE.