“I COULD ONLY CONTROL WHAT I DID NEXT”

Being told I needed to have injections into both of my eyes was the most terrifying moment of my life.

“Two weeks earlier, I’d gone for my annual eye check, expecting to hear it was all clear and was instead given the news that the vessels in the back of my eyes were leaking. I had diabetic macular oedema or DME.

“It was 5pm on a Friday evening and I couldn’t get an appointment with a specialist until the