Dealing with Visual Impairment as an Artist
I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes in 2015... it actually was my routine eye exam (which was running later than annual due to life circumstances) which caught it. My vision had been tanking over time without me realizing it. I was sitting at a traffic light one night and noticed that the walk signal was counting down "33, 22, 11" - My god, I thought, I've got double vision. I booked in for an eye exam right away. As soon as the doctor looked into the first eye she basically freaked out... referred me to an ophthalmologist and told me to get to my own doctor immediately for tests. My doctor saw me that afternoon - this was Thursday. He sent me for tests which I had done Friday morning. I saw the ophthalmologist on Monday (obviously the referral was labelled an emergency as waiting to see a specialist usually takes months.) They scheduled me for a "procedure"... I had to really press the staff to tell me what the "procedure" was... it was injections i...