Post by bad guy™ on Nov 1, 2020 19:13:24 GMT -5
Howdy y'all.
As many of you know, my mum is pushing 80. Despite my age, she's up there. One thing that has gotten increasingly worse in the last two years or so is her vision. We haven't had a chance to get her in for cataract surgery this year because she was in a nursing home from January till April, then everything shut down here in Pennsylvania till early August. But on top of cataracts she also had macular degeneration. Basically, there's a small leak in the blood vessels behind each of her eyes. It's treatable, but not curable. Anyways:
If you know of a parent, or grandparent that has this/gets injections for this, question. Do those Macular Degeneration glasses REALLY work to help see media like Facebook videos or whatever ancient Tom Selleck reruns she happens to come across? I know they're supposed to work like reading glasses, but there's a massive price hike. Reading glasses you can get for a tenner, macular degeneration glasses are about two hundred. Big jump. Her doctor wouldn't give me a straight answer because he felt it impossible to tell the difference between real results and placebo results since he's an eye surgeon, not a glasses-providing optometrist.
I'm probably gonna toss this over to Reddit as well, but I figured I'd ask here because I know I'm not in a minority here when it comes to aging parents/guardians. Thanks, peeps!
As many of you know, my mum is pushing 80. Despite my age, she's up there. One thing that has gotten increasingly worse in the last two years or so is her vision. We haven't had a chance to get her in for cataract surgery this year because she was in a nursing home from January till April, then everything shut down here in Pennsylvania till early August. But on top of cataracts she also had macular degeneration. Basically, there's a small leak in the blood vessels behind each of her eyes. It's treatable, but not curable. Anyways:
If you know of a parent, or grandparent that has this/gets injections for this, question. Do those Macular Degeneration glasses REALLY work to help see media like Facebook videos or whatever ancient Tom Selleck reruns she happens to come across? I know they're supposed to work like reading glasses, but there's a massive price hike. Reading glasses you can get for a tenner, macular degeneration glasses are about two hundred. Big jump. Her doctor wouldn't give me a straight answer because he felt it impossible to tell the difference between real results and placebo results since he's an eye surgeon, not a glasses-providing optometrist.
I'm probably gonna toss this over to Reddit as well, but I figured I'd ask here because I know I'm not in a minority here when it comes to aging parents/guardians. Thanks, peeps!
