Christina Watts, prominent artist, was recently diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease. Here she talks about what that's like and how she has steps she's taken to adapt.
She first noticed a change in her eyesight when she picked up her slick new camera and put her left eye to the viewfinder.
After the initial diagnosis Watts was offered more details of her condition and she has a subset to the wet macular degeneration, called central serous retinopathy with choroidal neovascularization. Watts needs an injection of medicine into her eyeball. It started out once a month and now she is in a maintenance program so treatments are every seven weeks now.“I had a solid gray mass in the centre of my vision and the injections blasted it apart. Now I have a ton of floaties and I have this warped area.”As Watts gets older there is a threat of glaucoma that would require corrective surgery but that is a future threat.
And access the services available like occupational therapy for those who have experienced vision loss.Chopping garlic on her white cutting board doesn’t happen anymore. “Which is brilliant! Now I just have to remember which toothpaste is mine,” Watts said with a cheeky smile.“The vision loss people helped me rig up all my devices,” Watts added.
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