Over the weekend, several articles appeared in the British press and also here in the States, about Dame Judi Dench announcing that she has macular degeneration – dry in one eye and wet in the other – and that she was going blind, although she was receiving treatment for the wet AMD in the hopes of preserving some of her sight in that eye.
I considered writing about this, but couldn’t find the right words – then I read what my friend Steve Rose of the Foundation Fighting Blindness had written on his blog, Eye on the Cure – and (Read more...)