John Lear’s eye bleed struck him three days before Christmas in 2018. He was at work as a school instructional aide for special needs children near Indianapolis when his vision got “blood-red blurry.”
It had happened before, but never so quickly, he said. Panicked, he called his wife Jennifer and had a coworker drive him home.
Lear has diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness for diabetics, according to the National Eye Institute. Chronically high blood sugar can cause blood vessels in the retina to leak fluid or bleed, obstructing vision. Eventually, it can cause the retina to detach, which ...
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