Join our Live Q&A with Duncan Craib for World Glaucoma Week 2024 as he discusses the glaucoma patient experience.
Topic: The patient experience
Date: Thursday 14th March
Time: 6PM AEDT
✨ About the speaker ✨
When father-of-two and Boss Energy CEO Duncan Craib was told he had lost peripheral vision due to glaucoma he was completely shocked – and upset with himself for not having booked an eye check earlier.
At the time of Duncan’s diagnosis his eye pressure was high – in fact, the ophthalmologist hadn’t seen levels that high in someone of his age. He was 48 years of age at the time and had he not come in for his appointment there was a real possibility Duncan could have been blind within three months.
Today, Duncan administers drops twice a day in both eyes, which for now seems to be working, but there is a possibility surgery will be required down the track.
“I hope by sharing my story it will draw awareness to glaucoma. We do take our eyes for granted, yet they are such an important asset in our everyday life, and a complex part of the body. It’s not until something goes wrong that we can really start to appreciate the problems associated with loss of sight. Please book an eye check if you haven’t had one and look into your family history to see if there’s glaucoma, because once you lose your sight you can’t get it back, and it really does change how you see the world – in more ways than one".