Pray for our Hilda
Dear Friends,
I want to ask you on a personal level to please remember me in your
prayers. I just came back from my eye doctor – he is a Glaucoma
specialist, he informed me after some tests that my Glaucoma has
progressed. The left eye already has lost some peripheral vision, which
I already knew from before, but now my right eye has gotten worse too.
Don’t have to tell you that it depresses me. Blindness to me is worse
than death – it is a living death. Not to see another sunset, all the
beauty of nature, our grandchildren growing, reading, all the things one
enjoys in life are mostly visual – at least to me. I would not have
become a painter if seeing and appreciating beauty would not have meant
that much to me. Please pray that science comes up with a cure, or at
least stops the progression. My first eye drops for it have not worked,
now the doctor is trying others, there is also the possibility of a laser
operation, with 74% success in stopping progression – but I don’t know
what happens to the other 26%, if it makes the situation worse, possibly
blindness, than I would be
reluctant to have it done. What miserable choices!
Love,
Hilda
