I've never been able to say 20/20 hindsight because my visual impairment makes me have 20/60 vision. :(
Last week I was told that I was near sighted a needed glasses.
Oh that's a little unfortunate, but I know the feeling. Did it cause you trouble with reading or driving?
I have noticed when I would read signs driving.
Pretty blurry then, yeah. Well at least complete vision loss isn't in the cards for either of us. Don't think I could handle blindness!
Yeah it scares me to think about that
life. Visual hallucinations may also occur but these do not represent a mental illness.
Macular degeneration typically occurs in older people. Genetic factors and smoking also play a role. It is due to damage to the macula of the retina. Diagnosis is by a complete eye exam. The severity is divided into early, intermediate, and late types. The late type is additionally divided into "dry" and "wet" forms with the dry form making up 90% of cases.
Preventive efforts include exercising, eating
to say it was a hire. But I just... people kept telling me, 'Oh you'll never be able to shake this,' and I said, 'You know, I'm gonna do the best I can and go away from that.' I knew when I read it, and I saw the bees and the stuff, I knew things like that haven't been filmed before, so that was interesting. And I've always wanted to find my own personal Phantom of the Opera."