spose i should give you the background really shouldn't i?

okay so ever since i was born ive had eye problems. at three days old i was already in the operating theater having a hole drilled int eh back of mse pressure (really not as bad as it sounds sorry if i made you cringe quite a bit)

basically i have a lot of problems with my eyes all adding up to one big problem

i have a condition called anaridia which has a one in a million chance of getting as its spontanio have no other relatives with eye problems (jeez that must be the most crappy lottery i'll ever win) i also have glaucoma and an eye stagmus.

i had vision (if very poor) in both eyes up until two years ago when i had an operation to remove a cataract (oh lucky me yet another problem:P) and suffered a large ammount of trauma which caused my retina to detach (eep) we werent warned that htis could happen so by the time we realised what had happened it was too late  and i lost the vision in my left eye

in decenber last year i had a large operation on my right eye to. well to prett y much save my vision. up until st year blindness had always been a vague thought and ide never really thought it would happen but the doc gave it to me straight . the glaucoma will get worse as i get older and he gave me what ten years max left of sight.

tbh i dont know what i'll do. i mean ive always imagined that i'll have a proper family when im older y'know wife kids blah blah but what it meet anyone before i go blind and i never see my kids faces?

and thats another thing i dont think i could hav ekids cos the doc said to me when i asked him that if i did have kids it'd be a fifty fifty chance of my problems passing on to them and i dont know about you but i know ide be pretty pissed if someone put me through what ive been through. ive been bullied and all that drill it dt of me knokws taht the sight thing has made me who i am and i like who i am

i think

anyway jeez that was a long post if you read all that. well done you officially have a long attention span. i jsut needed that off my chest

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That's really bad, I'm sorry!

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it doesnt matter as i said its made me who i am and i appreciate life and everything because of it;)

Good luck.

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That's so sad. I know another person here who is about to go blind, if you know her you should really talk to her.

I so feel for you about it. *hugs*

I can't really imagine being blind because I rely on my eyesight too much, even though it's not perfect.

Like Autumndaze said, try to enjoy as much as posible of what left of it. Always remember that you see with your mind and your heart. You are a strong person, don't loose that.

If you want to talk, I'm here.
:)

*hugs again*

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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift!
That's why we call it PRESENT.

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That's really bad, I'm sorry!

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I'm sorry.

That's so sad. I know another person here who is about to go blind, if you know her you should really talk to her.

I so feel for you about it. *hugs*

I can't really imagine being blind because I rely on my eyesight too much, even though it's not perfect.

Like Autumndaze said, try to enjoy as much as posible of what left of it. Always remember that you see with your mind and your heart. You are a strong person, don't loose that.

If you want to talk, I'm here.
:)

*hugs again*

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I am the person she is talking about

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There will be peace in the valley for me, some day
There will be peace in the valley