American singer, August Alsina is currently battling total blindness after losing his left vision to an eye disease.

It was also gathered that the singer had swung into immediate action to prevent total blindness by undergoing a very painful surgery which is yielding result.

The singer took to his Instagram account to share his pain and story with a picture of himself undergoing the correction process.

He shared the picture with the caption, 'So I have this eye disease.. Blind in my left, and losing vision in my right. In order to prevent my eyesight from deteriorating ihad to do this surgery.'

Continuing, he said, 'This shit is beyond painful & Life be throwin' a nigxa curve balls but what I've gained from it all is priceless... A lot of things that are so natural to us in life (like waking up and being able to see ) we can take it for granted. Thank God the OG for allowing me to see.. The good the bad the ugly, I'm just glad to see.'