Seniors

It started right after my mother died in 2002. Suddenly it was gone in the left eye. The other eye was holding up good until he got the shingles in 2008 and the shingles went into his good eye and set the macular degeneration off in said eye.

He has to have injections in the eye he has partial sight out of about every 8-12 weeks (depends) for the rest of his life and his vision at present is 20/40 is what he has left after a rather botched cataract surgery in 2012. He has since time also developed glaucoma to top it off.

Needless to say he had to give up driving and he is not very happy about it nor am I as the whole load falls upon me now.

His eyesight in not at all good and it is almost as challenging for me as it is for him at times.

Sadly, it seems to be highly genetic, more common in those with blue eyes which he has. There are 10 kids in his family and about half of the ones still around have macular degeneration.

My late father also had the wet form but it affected one eye only best I know.

I have yet to hear of anyone recovering from this horrible problem but make sure you keep it under close watch. If you notice anything odd at all with the good eye, get to the ophthalmologist ASAP.

There is a lot of research and progress going on with this problem. I hope there will be a cure soon for those suffering with this soon.

Sorry to hear you have this crap! Hang in there!