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Q: Is There Hope For My Mom
asked by: quadracerjt on July 21st, 2005
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My mom(bless her heart) was scratched by a cat when she was 6yrs old, and it gave her toxoplasmosis, which triggered glaucoma, which triggered uv-itis, which triggered cateracts. She's already lost all but pereperal vision in her left eye and its discolored from the right one. She's had cateract surgery once and its already back. Her eye pressure is approaching 50, which is about how much it takes for the eyeball to burst. The uv-itis causes the high pressure. Shes currently on 4 different kinds of drops and a pill. Is there any new advancements in medicine that maybe i'm not aware of. She's only 53 and its destroying her life...Everyday we all fear she's gonna just wake up blind..Please help me.
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aleut4
replied on December 2nd, 2005
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Bless Your Mom
Please tell your mother, I feel for her. I have gone threw 7 operations on my left eye. I'm going on year and half since all this started. The reason I am going threw all this was because of left eye infection due to a removal of a cataract. I just had a corneal transplant and before that a retina attachment. I had glocama after the infection and they had to use laser to put two different wholes to decrease the pressure very painful to live with.
But that help and the glucoma was over finally. I still can't see yet out of that eye. I haven't returned to work i'm a nurse. I wish her well and don't give up hope! Rena
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laytonpop
replied on February 2nd, 2009
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glaucoma
What is glaucoma and what causes it?
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