Insight For Your Eyesight: Winning The Battle Against Glaucoma

Sandra Morici's experience was sudden.

"About a year and a half ago I was reading and I noticed a dark shadow appear in part of my vision," she said. "I was worried. I didn't know what it was."

She ran to the eye doctor, and at age 59, had her first encounter with glaucoma, an eye disease affecting many adults 50-plus years old, especially African Americans.

Glaucoma also mainly affects those with diabetes, those who are nearsighted, or who have had damage to the eye. Specifically, glaucoma is a result of normal eye fluid build-up, causing pressure in the eye and eventually damaging the optic nerve. Glaucoma results in vision loss and blindness if not treated.

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