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I was diagnosed by professor Fred Hollows who visited Bathurst in 1973 to test the population over the age of 35.
I went to Sydney to see Dr Burfilt Williams, who later referred me to an ophthalmologist in Canberra, who then did a cataract and trabeculectomy operation in 1994 and 1996 respectively. In 1998 Prof Ivan Goldberg performed revision surgery and I have been on Azopt drops ever since.
I am still managing to live at home with my husband and I will turn 90 this year. I am grateful for the fact that I can still read from a Kindle and watch television.
Glaucoma Australia has been very supportive to me since 1996 after my second eye operation. It is a wonderful organisation that has helped many people.
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.