Hiking in Peru, Lucy Schoonhoven realised with some alarm that she couldn’t make out the sides of the mountain path she was walking on.
‘I felt unsafe,’ she recalls. ‘I couldn’t see the edges because every time I looked down, it was like I had a mass of cloudy seaweed in front of my eyes.’
The vision problem wasn’t new. Lucy had started getting a few ‘floaters’ – small dots or strands that drifted across her vision – in her late 40s.
But the 59-year-old gardener says: ‘Once I hit 50 they increased a lot over a short space of time and it
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