TORONTO — Eight-year-old Logan Dorna is rooting for the Blue Jays in the playoffs, emblazoning their logo on his prosthetic eye.
Logan's left eye was removed at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto after he was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, an eye cancer, when he was six months old.
Matthew Milne, an optometrist who works at an eye cancer hospital, gave Logan his first artificial eye as a child and replaced it with a new one about every two years as he grew older.
When Logan came to see Milne a couple of weeks ago for another prosthetic eye, he had something specific in mind.
“I wanted to bring some special attention to myself because I love playing baseball and I love watching it,” he said in a video interview with his parents from their home in Richmond Hill, Ont., on Friday.
Milne, who hand-paints prosthetic eyes, gave Logan eyes with gold irises and baseball stitches.
He painted the Blue Jays logo over the eye. Unlike the gold and stitching, the logo cannot be made visible to others as the top is tucked back into the eye socket.
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But Logan knows it's there and can show others when he exchanges that eye for a second “everyday” prosthetic eye. This man has a brown iris to match his seeing eye.

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There is also a special painting at the top that reflects his interests: a character from the Zelda video game series.
Milne encourages his young patients to choose fun images for the tops of their prosthetic eyes.
“When you're dealing with an adult problem like retinoblastoma, I want to always give kids the opportunity to customize something, make it fun for them,” he said.
Logan's mom, Talyn Dorna, said her son wears the Blue Jays eye “every time the Jays play because in his heart he believes it gives them a little extra luck.”
The sports theme is also a celebration of what Logan overcame the summer he first started playing baseball, she said.
“He only had monocular vision and his depth perception was really impaired. So whenever he hit the ball… (it) really gave him confidence.”
When he's not hitting the ball (Logan's favorite part of the game), he “usually plays right wing, but sometimes he plays center and left wing,” he said.
Dorna and Logan's father, Serge, hopes that seeing their son embrace his artificial eye will inspire other children with special needs to be proud and welcome.
“This is what we always wanted for him… no social stigma associated with a prosthetic eye because it makes such a noticeable difference,” Dorna said.
“We want him to always feel confident and not ashamed of who he is because it's part of his personality.”
Logan's prosthetic eye is connected to his eye muscles so it can move in sync with his seeing eye when he looks around, even if he has no vision, Milne said.
Retinoblastoma is rare—15 cases were reported in children under 14 years of age in 2019—but it is the most common type of eye cancer in children, often occurring before the age of two, according to the Canadian Cancer Society website.
Removing the cancerous eye helps prevent the tumor from spreading to other places. After Logan had his eye removed, he did not require any further treatment such as chemotherapy or radiation, his mother said.
He now goes to the SickKids eye clinic once a year for checkups and sees Milne every few months to maintain his prosthetic eye.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 18, 2025.
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