This one really hits CLOSE TO HOME!
My mom's been QUICKLY going blind due to dry macular degeneration over the past several years. She was told she could no longer drive in late 2007, and now, less than three years later, her vision is so bad she can't even make out what's on TV -- and even riding an electric shopping cart in Wal-Mart recently, came looking for me after I told her I was in the "coffee aisle," pulled up to the COFFEE END of the coffee aisle, with me standing only about 25 feet down the aisle, and couldn't tell there was any coffee there OR tell I was standing in the aisle only 25 feet away (and I'm a BIG man).
At 78, I'm thinking she should be a good candidate for this procedure (I'm certainly HOPING she is, at any rate)! We've been SEARCHING for a clinical trial she could participate in, but haven't been able to find anything in our area. This could be a Godsend for her. I just hope Medicare will approve payment for it.
Jeff Hayes
Spartanburg, SC
