Flower
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
From my point of view it looks something like this.
I'm blind in my left eye and just have central vision in my right eye. It's very flickery, flashing sight due to my retina cells giving out alarm signals to my brain that they're short of oxygen. I don't have enough living retina left to provide the oxygen my retina cells need after maximum laser treatment.
It's like peering down a dark tube with vital parts missing. I continually have to move my head around to try and see the missing bits. I can't tell colour apart from dark, white and sludge - that's all the other colours lumped together. In the dark and low light I'm blind as my peripheral vision was destroyed by laser to try and protect my central vision
My friend who's known me for years, suggested I get some new glasses so I can see better. Ahh if only it was that beautifully simple I most definitely would go straight to Specsavers. I tried to think how I could show her why I walk into people and things, fall down steps , can't walk in a straight line, generally feel unsafe and this is what I came up with to give an idea of what a complication looks like in reality.

I'm blind in my left eye and just have central vision in my right eye. It's very flickery, flashing sight due to my retina cells giving out alarm signals to my brain that they're short of oxygen. I don't have enough living retina left to provide the oxygen my retina cells need after maximum laser treatment.
It's like peering down a dark tube with vital parts missing. I continually have to move my head around to try and see the missing bits. I can't tell colour apart from dark, white and sludge - that's all the other colours lumped together. In the dark and low light I'm blind as my peripheral vision was destroyed by laser to try and protect my central vision
My friend who's known me for years, suggested I get some new glasses so I can see better. Ahh if only it was that beautifully simple I most definitely would go straight to Specsavers. I tried to think how I could show her why I walk into people and things, fall down steps , can't walk in a straight line, generally feel unsafe and this is what I came up with to give an idea of what a complication looks like in reality.