My fight against diabetic macular oedema continued yesterday with the start of another 5 rounds of injections into my eyes each a month apart.

It had been 2 months since my last set of injections but I should been seen after only 1 month. Sometimes I feel I’m battling the bureaucracy and apathy at the QMC as much as I am battling my condition and that’s just wrong.

The positive is that the injection for the short term, fixes my eyesight and restores contrast, colour and sharpness.

The negative is that the injections are not providing a permanent or even long term fix and the battle for my sight will be lost over time. And from what little I have been told that could be sooner rather than later.

Blindness is a certainty and all I can do for now is delay it.