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Over the last few months I have been diagnosed with a disease called glaucoma, something I know very little about.
Working in the medical industry all my life I have had the privilege of working with patients with a wide variety of medical issues, with the exception of one - glaucoma - and now I have been touched with it.
I am totally devastated and am struggling with a disease that is so impacting words cannot convey the pain and shock you feel. I am only a few months into my journey and where that leads I have no idea. I read the stories of so many people. Their concerns and journeys and I am amazed and inspired. If I can draw on these and be a small part of their lives I will get motivated and face head on this eye disease called glaucoma. What a challenge I have; but to walk in the steps of those before me gives me hope and warmth in my heart.
Thank you to those amazing people and their stories.
Living in York Peninsula community two hour's drive from Adelaide and with no optometrist in her local community, Debra booked an appointment as soon as she could. That’s when she received her life changing diagnosis.
When Bette Smith’s cousin told her they had glaucoma in the family, she did what all Australians should be doing, she got her eyes checked.
My mother was diagnosed with glaucoma when she was about seventy, so I was closely monitored. When there were indicators that I could be following the same path, I was referred to a glaucoma specialist.