Re: Glaucoma

Glad to hear you are both under control. Eyesight is so precious, and
almost unthinkable for a gardener (or a voracious reader) to be w/out!!


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: james singer <jsinger@igc.org>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Sun, 7 Dec 2003 07:24:52 -0500

>I've had glaucoma for probably a dozen years now. It causes pressure to 
>build up within the eye, which damages the optic nerve. Easy to keep 
>the pressure under control with once-a-day eye drops. Or they can blast 
>open the ducts with a laser so the pressure doesn't built up. But the 
>ducts slowly close up again and the laser treatment only lasts about 10 
>years--at least that was my experience with my left eye.
>
>
>On Saturday, December 6, 2003, at 09:11 PM, Cersgarden@aol.com wrote:
>
>> In a message dated 12/6/03 12:18:16 PM, TeichFlora@aol.com writes:
>>
>> <<  My "condition" will be monitored
>> closely from now on. >>
>>
>> Noreen, I have been monitored closely for the past two years for 3 eye
>> disease including glaucoma. I am taking an eye anti Oxidant containing 
>> Lutein &
>> other vitamins and happy to say after seeing the dr Thurs, none of the 
>> 3 have
>> progressed.
>>     Ceres
>>
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>Island Jim
>Southwest Florida
>Zone 10
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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