regret

This story is told from the perspective of a 69 year old woman who suffers from the eye disease, glaucoma. She has always been very independent throughout her life. She loves socializing with her friends and hanging out with her three grandchildren but her eye impairment has affected her lifestyle.

The most important thing is that I am dependent, and I don’t like that. I cannot drive. Earlier, I could pick up the car and go around, without a problem, but now losing the peripheral eyesight, with no recourse to get the eyesight back, I can’t drive, I’m dependent. I don’t know if the research will come up with stem cells and take care of the glaucoma. I don’t even know at this point because even Jules Stein, a UCLA institute, doesn’t have an answer to this. They have seen my eye and said it is really bad. They said 70% of my eyesight is gone and only 30% is left. I would love to get my eye back.

See, when I’m playing with the little makkhan, my youngest grandchild, and he is coming from the left side, I can’t see him. Many times, people are walking and coming from the left and I don’t see them and I end up bumping into them, which I don’t like. Another thing is that I have to keep putting in eye drops to prevent my eye from getting worse. I wish I had not gotten the cataract done. A lot of the reason why my optic nerve is damaged is because of the doctor. I wish I had just kept wearing my glasses because I would be in a better situation.