The fight to see my PC

Davey Winder explains how he adapted his PC to cope with a sudden deterioration of his eyesight The month before I started writing this feature, I had pretty good eyesight for a man knocking on the door of 50. My last eye test was only three months ago and, apart from the lazy left eye that’s required me to wear glasses for close work since I was a boy, all was well. That was before I woke up one morning and the world hadn’t only gone blurry, but strangely distorted. At first I thought the cold I’d developed was the reason that everything was out of focus, but after a week of my sight continuing to deteriorate, with straight lines becoming curved and close objects seemingly being viewed through a goldfish bowl, I decided to see the optician again. To cut a long story short, I found myself at the local hospital under the care of a specialist retina consultant who discovered I had wet macular degeneration (wet MD) – in my “good” eye!