At age 79 (2018) I started having vision problems. So, I was sent to a retinal doctor then informed me that both eyes have Moderate Nonprotractile Diabetic Retinopathy OD & OS with Diabetic Myopic Degeneration” THIS GOT MY ATTENTIUON!” He noted that the floaters were from bleeding cracks in the retina. Boy, do I wish I had paid attention to my sugar earlier? This is a lesson for everyone, get your A1C checked and know the number and what it means.
So, I investigated how the eye works to find out what went wrong because I did not take care of my diabetes. The eye has six million coins in the outer part of the retina for your color vision. Thus, because they have lost a lot of their function, I am partially color blind and have extremely poor sight. The eye also has ninety-two million rods, for your low light vision. They are 1,000 times more sensitive to low light than cones and give us our peripheral vision. Thus, because of diabetes, normal light to the rods has increased my light sensitivity so much that my pupils start to close down in normal light. Thus, any light above a normal amount causes my pupils to destroy my peripheral vision. Therefore, I keep all my windows covered. I also use a “high contrast node” on my computer screen so that I have a black background with yellow letters.
   In the back center of the back center of the eye is the macula (5.5 mm, 0.22 inches) and is responsible for your central vision right in front of you. In the back center of the macula, it has two million cones and thirty million rods. In the center of the macula is the fovea (3.5mm, 0.14 inches). It has 250,000 cones. They are responsible for our high-acuity vision, 20/15, for small words. I have lost about 30% of them. I estimate that I have lost about 20% of the cones.
   My eyes have deteriorated so much in the last 10 years Thai I was a class A client, highest, of the Minnesota State Services for the Blind. They could not find me a job, so they closed my case. They gave me a ZOOMTEXT, so that I could read small print such as mail.   I can change a white background to black by pressing ctrl + C.
  
    On 9/14/20, my retina doctor told me that for the first time my retinas were not bleeding. I could tell he was surprised, so I asked if this happens often. What he said was that it never gets better, for people like me, it either stays the same or gets worse. I asked if this is unusable and has this ever happened with any other clients. He said, “NO Tom you are unique.”
On 9/12/21 at my appointment with my Reina doctor I was informed I was no longer had Moderate Nonprotractile Diabetic Retinopathy OD & OS but would always have Diabetic Myopic Degeneration. I asked about the bleeding. He then checked it. His comment "that's amazing, still no bleeding in either eye.
I no longer have a driver’s license. This is unbelieving hard because I am a car guy! My main personal enjoyment has been to drive, drive, and drive. But because of my eyes they have taken away my driver’s license. I have fixed focal length cataract lenses buy polarized prescription glasses for riding, Tv, computer and magnifying small print at six inches at $300 a pair.
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Diabetes

My  Aveage Sugar
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My Actual Sugar
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My Average Sugar
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Average of all My Sugarsr for Last 24 Hrs.

My Daily Sugar
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Range of all My Sugas for Each Day by Itsels3

Midpoint of My Sugar
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