About Diabetes - Referential Examples for Diabetics’(1-Type) Eye Care

How to Protect Eyes - Referential Examples for Diabetics’(1-Type) Eye Care

The exclamation “What a beautiful world I see!” is only possible when you have your own eyes.

I have been living with an extreme fright about eyes.

It is natural that even normal people without diabetes as well go worse as time goes farther. More serious thing is, instead of developing gradually like normal persons as time goes by, there are rather quite a few cases when the visual impairment syndrome for diabetics could happen too unexpectedly without notification and could ruin the diabetic patients miserably abruptly in a short passage up to ‘diabetic vision impairedness’ or ‘total blindness.’

One of the ends of diabetic patients is, there are quite a few cases of visional impairment or handicap due to such as diabetes retinal hemorrhage. Since I knew this information rather early, I have been protecting my vision in sunglasses unyieldingly and perseveringly however hard I get faultfinding or name calling from the neighbors (e.g. my native village, the town where my subcounty government works, church, seminary, pastor circles,...) since 1990.
Once in a while, I would even be treated as a suspicious man and be ordered to stop for a check by patrolmen. All the same, I have been made it a rule to wear sunglasses.

As some clinical history gets accumulated after diabetes’ outbreak, there come many a time when they feel sense of resistance against not only sunlight but also every kind of light.
From then on, your wearing sunglasses is very necessary.

You don’t get you body parts ruined in a day because of the complications due to diabetes.
Before the parts go to the worst, they become more tender, weaker and worse; then they are to get ruined. The diabetics must know how to treat those symptoms that are more tender, weaker and worse, well before their body parts go into the worst situation. Wearing sunglasses is also one of the manners to lengthen the period when your eyes are getting more tender, weaker and worse.

While my living is by the help of light, my current living pattern is that I stand to ‘dislike the light, avoid the light and run away from the light.’
In order avoid the artificial lights to protect my eyesight that goes poorer, I go to bed between 9 and 10. (I have been to bed between 8 and 9 since 2004.)
On days when my body is tired and my eyes are sore, I occasionally sleep before 8. Besides, if possible I try keeping out of lighting in the house, in the church or in whatever space I am in.

When I go to seminary and until 97~98 after graduation, I had made it a habit to read the Bible by the pillow for 30 minutes a day as soon as waking up in the morning.
But in just 5~6 years, this became impossible.
From 2002, I wasn’t able to read or write until my body reaches the best condition by moving 2~3 hours or more after getting up in bed.
It is hard to write or read under any light inside the room. Accumulated in the body has been my heart’s stress that I had to suffer in last 4 years. So, the most affected among them have been especially my eyes and kidneys where peripheral nerves and capillary vessels are concentrated. Even as compared with last year, my eyesight has been more weakening and failing, I can feel.

The ‘weakening’ and ‘failing’ eyesight here is yet different from fatal lose of eyesight.
Diabetics’ impaired eyesight and so their complete lost sense of perception means their eyes are collapsing beyond the phase of weakening. Whereas the eyes’ feeling sore, painful, prickly and smarting to any certain light or subtle stimulus and having a weakening sense of perception like I do means that the eyes are in the process of becoming vulnerable, weakening and failing.

What is important is, you should take the best care of your body from the very beginning of weakening so as to prevent your vision from failing and ruining.
Because being indifferent to the symptoms of eyes growing vulnerable and weakening could possibly cause you to get the loss of eyesight.

My intention that ‘our country’s people are ignorant of diabetes’ is, although many persons (including some of doctors) know patients might easily lose their eyesight due to diabetes, so that I may indicate they are ignorant of and indifferent to the fact that diabetics’ eyes get worse, impaired and blind in the process of eyes’ vulnerableness and weakening.

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