“Am I going blind?” was the first question I asked my ophthalmologist when I recently went for my annual eye exam.
Because I’m older now, she checks me for typical eye conditions related to aging, such as glaucoma and cataracts. Imagine my surprise when she told me that I needed to get another exam, called optical coherence tomography, which maps the entire retina.
After returning with photographs of the inside of my eyes, she told me that I had the beginning of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). This condition is slow to develop and rarely leads to blindness but is irreversible….