Red, Blurry and Treatable: Uveitis Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe uveitis, inflammation inside the eye, from the first red or blurred eye to years of drops, tapering and check-ups. Writers include a fourth grade teacher, a forklift driver whose back pain turned out to share a cause, a city bus driver, a pharmacist with years of mouth ulcers, a seventeen-year-old goalkeeper, a commercial pilot grounded for four months, a soldier hiding it from his sergeant, a market trader, and the mother of a seven-year-old who never complained, writing from Izmir to Christchurch and Bogotá to Belfast. Their stories involve sarcoidosis, shingles, a parasite, tuberculosis, syphilis, Crohn's disease, psoriatic arthritis, multiple sclerosis, a tick bite, a squash ball, a melanoma drug, a bone infusion and an injury that reached the other eye; some never got a reason. Treatments described include drops every hour, steroid tablets, injections into the eye, a tiny implant, weekly methotrexate and biologic injections. Daily life means sunglasses indoors, five-hour clinic days, telling an employer, and planning a pregnancy around medicines. Several write about raised eye pressure, cataracts, a biologic that stopped working, flares after stopping drops too soon, and one man who waited too long and lost most of the sight in one eye, while others describe years in remission.

Who it's for

For anyone newly told they have uveitis or living with flares that keep returning, and for the parents, partners and colleagues trying to understand what an inflamed eye involves.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 237 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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