General Council about Eye Care of Diabetics(1-Type)

How to Protect Eyes - General Council about Eye Care of Diabetics(1-Type)


Desiring to ‘see the world beautiful’ to the point of my death(!), I strive to start the morning in the state of no artificial lighting whether in winter or in summer.

Early morning when I go to the washroom, I as good as settle my calling of nature roughly(!) by a rough guess(?) without any light on. From fall 2003 on, to prevent the eyesight from going worse to worst, I even use a ‘urine pot’ to disallow turning lights on at night.
This much, I now manage my eyesight.

If you start your daily routine under a strong light at the first opening of your eyes in the morning in the state of already vulnerable and weakening eyes, then it could stimulate your poor eyes much more.
For this reason, my life style of now is that my time getting up in the morning is also different season by season.

In an eye test of now, both my eyes will be about 0.3~0.5.
(My eyesight is different depending on my physical condition.)
Yet it is hard for me to concentrate my vision for more than an hour. On a book that is printed bigger, I can keep watching it up to about a hour, but on a book that is printed smaller or glittery like ‘coated paper,’ I can hardly keep watching it for more than 20 years.
Writing is also hard to keep an hour a time.
Watching TV is hard to do an hour a time; looking at computer screen is hard for more than 20~30 minutes.

After the day when I forced myself into stretching the duration of watching TV in a condition of bloodshot eyes, the influence still goes on the next day.
The day after the day when I forced into stretching the duration of watching TV, I get mucus discharges from the eyes next day morning, and my eyes get much blearier toward every thing I look at.
On the day like this, I try to move my body at the most amount possible all day. I try winning my sight back by keeping away from books or TV. By virtue of this habit that I have kept eyes away from print or TV whenever my eyes starts to feel hurt, I have been able to maintain my sight at least no worse than now.

Especially at daybreak or morning when I begin my day, I set my getup time differently from season to season to avoid artificial lights; I make an absolute rule to wear sunglasses at the time of sunshine’s starting to spread in order to avoid all kinds of reflective lights that are strongly sparkling from morning; I look at things with a vacant stare in order to relax the tension in the eyes while I am walking or lying.

For your reference, if there is any diabetic who reads a newspaper as soon as getting up, it is recommended that the patient should keep off from it even from now for the sake of the future.

Although I pretend to be wise(!) and proud(!) to an extreme, I live as if the queer species who cannot drive, who don’t read newspapers, who cannot use computer for the sake of my eyes.
Because the inconvenience when I lose my vision is much more worse than the inconvenience when I cannot drive or use computer,.. I just chose the former myself.

(The computer work which I arranged a part-timer to do, I do it myself from May 2004. I had used just saline water until 2003. But from 2004, I deal with the computer work while applying 2~3 kinds of eye drops many times a day for the sake of my eyes that were bloodshot, swollen, sore, achingly painful. Due to that, there is more serious condition going on in the eyes. But I can express my situation now is ‘the situation of no-other-choice.’)

If there is any patient with stronger resistance against light, I wish to dissuade you from attending even an early-morning prayer meeting.
It is because you’ve got to be under an intense artificial lighting in the condition of your body’s not being prepared enough to attend.
If I informed visually-poor diabetic patients of the fact that “there is more likelihood for your eyes to go worse than to get better by praying in faith under a severe light,” I have been treated as ‘a weird minister who says queer stuff’ instead of their being thankful for me who gave information.
Although I have nothing to say with putting up one’s personal faith, I would like to remind that there is a strong superstition implied in this belief.
It is true that the ‘difference between faith and superstition’ is not clear enough for us to see through. But healthy faith is the one that one can differentiate between faith and superstition.

Since taking RH787 poison I was hardly resistant to all kinds of high temperature such as hot air, sunshine, heater, steam, stove,.. as an aftereffect from the very first time. Now after 26 years, the level of allergicness to light has grown still worse because of overlapping diabetic visual-impairedness.

As my eyes grow vulnerable, as my eyes fall into difficulty, as my eyes grow weaker, and as my eyes go worse, my strong desire within(?) is ‘if only I see this brave beautiful world until my last breath.’

Even if I often tell my blood relatives, neighbors or the friends whom I have known for 10~20 years that my body condition is such-and-such, yet people’s feeling and way of thinking are that they are very prone to close their eyes and ears and mouths toward others’ situations in the neigborhood.

So, if I am unfairly treated, there is no other choice but to persevere till the end.

This is the saying that applies not only to me, but also to everybody who suffers due to poor eyesight under the sun.


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