I will elaborate. My retina surgeon says that it’s like a donut, with support on 2 sides but nothing in between.
I am staying on the working side, but I work from home having disability accommodation. You just get fired if you work for a private employer and are unable to keep up and you have to have full trust in your Dr. I have a very rare genetic disease that affects not 1 but both eyes. He was the only one who diagnosed it correctly, and has enormous experience. You are not knocked out for the shots in 2 eyes, you watch the needle as it goes into the eye.
They use a lot of anesthesia locally, so it’s actually not excruciatingly painful. You feel it but not much more.
So one support is working, the other support is disability and nothing in between. I am automatically disabled with BCVA of 20/200 or worse, I get a day drivers license at 20/40 BCVA or worse. Full blindness with my illness is not expected, but it can get down to 20/70, at which point I lose my driving privileges and am fully unable to read, but am still not qualified for disability based on vision loss.
My reading speed got substantially lower due to vision loss and I make typos when typing, but so far nothing major. I can try venturing on my own, but I will lose my vision before anything takes off.
Generally, I could receive disability when I go low vision 20/70 or worse because truth is you can’t really do much and require help at home, but it requires an attorney
This is best corrected vision, it means it can’t be corrected with glasses, it affects both near and far vision equally. The illness can cause a macular hole, then vision just goes dark like you were born blind |
