My dad just completely lost sight in his right eye yesterday. He's in hospital right now to see what they can do but most likely won't gain his right eye vision back without multiple operations, even then it won't be much. The retina just completely detached.
My dad is 70 and reading the brochure it says people around the ages of 60-70 are most susceptible to this. My advice for anyone with parents around this age is to see an optician every year (the last time my dad went was when he was 50 or something). They said in the brochure it CAN be prevented if the optician can spot it and treat it with some form of laser compared to the now physical operation he will have to go under.
Apparently there was no prior signs, it just completely went out but I don't know if this is him in denial or just not aware. I took yesterday to think about any possible signs I could and I came up with two you should look out for:
1. If they still drive watch closely. I was not in the car at the time but my mother said he was very skewed on one side of the motorway lanes not near the centre of the lines. It was enough that they argued about it
2. Hand eye coordination. If you hand them something watch for how they accept the item. I remember last week my dad took an extra second to grab something I gave him which I didn't think nothing of at the time
I should have been aware of these issues and put 2 and 2 together. I feel stupid for not doing it. Hopefully someone else out there can one day save their parents eyesight (or maybe even your own) by catching it early and learn from my shortcomings
My dad is 70 and reading the brochure it says people around the ages of 60-70 are most susceptible to this. My advice for anyone with parents around this age is to see an optician every year (the last time my dad went was when he was 50 or something). They said in the brochure it CAN be prevented if the optician can spot it and treat it with some form of laser compared to the now physical operation he will have to go under.
Apparently there was no prior signs, it just completely went out but I don't know if this is him in denial or just not aware. I took yesterday to think about any possible signs I could and I came up with two you should look out for:
1. If they still drive watch closely. I was not in the car at the time but my mother said he was very skewed on one side of the motorway lanes not near the centre of the lines. It was enough that they argued about it
2. Hand eye coordination. If you hand them something watch for how they accept the item. I remember last week my dad took an extra second to grab something I gave him which I didn't think nothing of at the time
I should have been aware of these issues and put 2 and 2 together. I feel stupid for not doing it. Hopefully someone else out there can one day save their parents eyesight (or maybe even your own) by catching it early and learn from my shortcomings