Judi Dench has revealed that she had been diagnosed with macular degeneration, an eye condition which can cause blindness, and that her eyesight was already so bad that she couldn't even read her own scripts.
The 77-year-old told the Daily Mirror that she was relying on friends and family to keep her up to speed with her lines.
"It's usually my daughter or my agent or a friend and actually I like that, because I sit there and imagine the story in my mind," she told the newspaper during an interview at a London hotel. "The most distressing thing is in a restaurant in the evening I can't see the person I'm having dinner with."
I hope that her sight will get better soon. She's a wonderful actress.
Unless a cure is found, it won't get better. Degenerative means it will continue to get worse. Often, the best the doctors wish for is to slow down the progress.
Lucky for her she seems to have many loved ones with which to surround herself.
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There are 2 types "wet" & "dry" -wet is worse. No real tx's for it just prevention ie not smoking, looking into bright sunlight- taking lutein- b4 symptoms occur.
NOTE there are some tx for the wet form- new drugs, called anti-angiogenics or anti-VEGF (anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor) agents, can cause regression of the abnormal blood vessels and improvement of vision when injected directly into the vitreous humor of the eye. The injections have to be repeated on a monthly or bi-monthly basis. Examples of these agents include ranibizumab (trade name Lucentis). She could learn her lines from tapes but her movements would have to be very choreographed do-able in film- not so much onstage. Ver sad news.
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