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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This sounds like macular degeneration linked to age (my grandma has this). Anyway, there are shots that might help slow it down…but it might also be too late. In my family, my dad flew out and helped get things set up for her. Good luck. [/quote]

Yes, is MD and she has had the injections for many years, including some experimental ones when the original ones began to fail. Now none are working and the doctors don’t know if that will always be the case or if there will be a worse state that might plateau with different injections. [/quote]

Yes, what my grandmother was told was that at some point they don’t work anymore…it stinks. She went from basically being completely independent (she’s lived in the same small town for 30 years), where it was an easy drive to the store, or to see a friend, to blind. All in less than a month. She can’t use her stove anymore because she can’t see the buttons to turn it on. Someone comes 3-4/week to cook/deliver groceries etc. But it’s hard…she says she’d rather die than go to a facility (she’s 95) but her health is otherwise great…and for now she manages like this, but it may not. 
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