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In October, 1999, when I visited an optician he recommended for me to go to a specialist. He said that I had glaucoma and would need treatment and daily use of eye drops. I administer eye drops each morning and each evening.
I visit the specialist regularly for many years, followed by other specialists, until I learned that research on macular degeneration ( I have this in my right eye) was being conducted at the Lions Eye Institute in Nedlands. When I have my photographs taken for this, I also have my glaucoma checks, including a field test.
Although I still drive the car for short distances and wear visual aids at all times, I am grateful for my long distance glasses.
Reading the newspaper is not always easy, and I do have concerns that my eyesight will not remain stable, and the glaucoma can be a constant worry.
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.