France 5 host Elisabeth Quin confided in her glaucoma and her fear of going blind at the microphone of Europe 1.
Invited to the microphone ofEuropean 1 (in the show There is not only one life in life) Elisabeth Quin confided in her glaucoma and her risk of losing her sight. “I don’t know if I’m going to lose my sight. I’m doing everything not to lose it, explained the 55-year-old host. There would be a utopian and illusory temptation to accumulate a library of mental images. stab yourself doing that.”
400,000 to 500,000 people don’t know they have glaucoma
Glaucoma is a serious disease of the vision which, by causing a slow destruction of the optic nerve, can cause total loss of sight. It is asymptomatic, which means that the sick person does not feel pain or loss of visual acuity. “To date, treatments make it possible to stop its evolution but they do not make it possible to restore vision when the disease is already advanced”, details Inserm. One in five people has glaucoma after the age of 70, 400,000 to 500,000 people affected are unaware that they have it and 30% of cases are hereditary. Early detection of glaucoma is therefore essential.
In the case of Elisabeth Quin, surgery could improve her condition and prevent her from losing her sight, but nothing is certain yet. “Like all medical acts, it involves a risk. Surgery in the eye is, depending on the eye, depending on the state of the disease, more or less risky. There is the objective risk of surgery and there is what one puts, oneself, in this notion of a scalpel, something which comes into your eye and which awakens absolutely archaic terrors. But the host prefers to remain positive: “One million people in France have glaucoma, either in one eye or in both eyes, and who are being treated with all kinds of care, laser, surgery, eye drops, and it’s more or less fine. less good.”
“It’s not very serious if you look at me strangely”
To raise awareness of this disease, which she describes as “bastard”, the host released a autobiographical book The night is rising, published by Grasset. “Elisabeth Quin discovers that her eye is sick and that glaucoma alters, pollutes, clouds everything she looks at. She risks losing her sight. So begins the fight against anguish and illness, crumpled nights, fear of dawn, fragility of this eye suddenly auscultated, drenched in eye drops, dilated, examined, observed observer…”, can we read in the synopsis of the publisher.
Over the pages, Elisabeth Quin details the side effects that now punctuate her daily life: “It’s fun to tell how in the morning you have to hunt down the hair on your face as if you were becoming the bearded woman. I took a certain pleasure in heckling the limits of what is supposedly avowable when the “We’re a vaguely media person. It doesn’t matter if people look at me strangely. I don’t care”.
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