State of the mom

[helen99]

My mom has had macular degeneration for a while, meaning the central vision is deteriorating due to weakening and bursting of blood vessels on the retina and subsequent pooling of fluid in the eye. She's been eating a lot of vitmin A-laden yellow and green vegetables and taking leutine, and it had stabilized for a while, but one eye recently got worse. She decided to try a treatment recommended by her doctor. We weighed the side effects and she decided that she wanted to go through with it, since the alternative was to lose vision in that eye. She had the first injection last week. There were no side effects so far (it's an ongoing treatment) and her vision in that eye has cleared up. I hope in the long term that there continue to be no side effects. I'm glad that she's able to see better. The fracture she got when she fell earlier this year is all mended - she can raise her arm over her head a lot more than anyone predicted, and since going off the bad medications has gone back to exercising every day. If an 89-year-old person can do her exercises, so can I...