Our mom is 84 years old. Gets around ok. Diabetes type 2, some dementia, few hospital visits. She is still with dad, also 84yo. She started to receive a shot in one eye for macular degeneration. Do you think there's good reason to continue the shot?
My brother thinks no, and I yes.
As cwillie above had mentioned, if your Mom can handle the appointments, keep having those shots.
Wish those shots were available for my Mom when she was alive, but the shots were still in clinical trials. Mom had to stop reading as it was too tiring trying to read out of the corner of her eyes.
Second, my DH is 96 - so to me, 84 isn't old yet. I'd say continue it as long as Mom can handle it. She won't handle going blind either.
Third - I'm going to ask my doctor about it as I've never heard of it - but I'm 66 and I don't want to go blind either.
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