These are the sweetest words I can hear. I look for them once a year. They are the words from my eye doctor after I've done various tests to determine if the glaucoma I have has started to deteriorate my vision any further. They are the words that tell me I am not going blind yet.
I was 59 years old when I was diagnosed with glaucoma. Already some permanent damage had occurred to my retina. I was put on these eye drops. My Dad had been diagnosed with glaucoma at exactly the same age as I was. But these 'eye drops', these 'drugs' didn't exist then. He went blind. And it embittered his life to his end. So when I got the diagnosis, I was terrified.
But year after year, the effectiveness of these drugs showed their worth. There has been no deterioration since. Though each and every year when I have the test done, I wait with anxiousness. Is this the year, that the decline will finally set in?
I assume it will happen some year. But not this year.
