Oh my eyes
I write this through blurry vision having just had an injection into my eyeball. It seems I've been unlucky enough to be one of the few young people to have developed Macular Degeneration in my left eye. Seeing as I'm still reasonably young at 28 I decided to go for one of the fancy new unlicenced injections, my drug of choice in this instance is called Lutein. I'm happy to say that the eye hospital in Oxford is excellent and the doctor treating me is one of the best in the country. This still doesn't take away the sting of the possible impact on a career in web-app design (I can't see the screen so well these days), or the sting of the cost at £1500 an injection (no NHS for this treatment). Still, I hope to recover a bit of vision and perhaps in time I won't even notice it. I just hope the already visible signs of it developing in the other eye don't progress any further.
tony flaig (not verified) on July 06th 2008
I don't get out much these days and that also is true of my web surfing.
So having only just read of your plight I'd just like to wish you good luck, since, any advice I could give would of course be complete er Bollocks.
Still it sounds like your getting best advice available, its infuriating that you are having to pay for treatment.
I hope that this is not effecting, your studies, trust this does not impinge on social activities.
Still just to distract you a bit tried some beer brewed by Gadds yesterday, although I'm not any sort of beer connoisseur, it was different. Just thought I'd mention it, I'm more a larger man myself. I'm assuming your taste buds are OK.
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