Patricia Gill – CANADA
Patricia Gill is an example of a patient where greater education efforts may have helped save her vision.
She woke up one morning in 1998, opened her eyes and realized something was very wrong. “I had a black cloud over my left eye,” said Gill. However, it was not until 2000 that she was finally diagnosed with AMD, and she was even more alarmed to learn then that 35 years of smoking might have been a contributing factor in the disease development.
...35 years of smoking might have been a contributing factor in the disease development.
Since getting AMD, she has been very involved in making people aware of this disease by making numerous television appearances, speaking on radio talk shows and giving speeches to people who have AMD. Patricia has also been in most of the newspapers across Canada
