Hi, I'm nuggets and i'm 12 this year. I came across this blog and thought it would be interesting to share with all of you the importance of our eyes. My uncle is curently suffering from eye disease, a condition ( i heard from the doctor) known as glaucoma.

When I first knew about my uncle's condition, it was a great shock to me as my uncle showed no visible symptoms except just on the day before he was diagnosed.

It started off with a throbbing headache on his left side, which he dismissed lightly. Around 2 hours later, he complained of sudden blurred vision, and eye pain. His eye looked red and sore. The events were so sudden that all of us in the family were taken aback. He was warded into hospital the next day.

The doctor told us more about glaucoma and we learnt that glaucoma is the result of our optic nerve being damaged over a long period of time, causing gradual visual loss. Usually patients don’t notice it until they have already lost quite a lot of their peripheral vision. It is only in the very late stage of the disease that central vision becomes blurred.








These photos show progressive optic nerve damage (indicated by the cup to disc ratio) caused by glaucoma. Notice the pale appearance of the nerve with the 0.9 cup as compared to the nerve with the 0.3 cup.

~ nuggets