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Cooking up a new stage of life: Shane Somerville tells his story

August 6, 2024
Jennifer Zhao Zhao

In our latest edition of Vision Voice, Shane candidly shares his experience of managing vision loss while still working, as well as maintaining a positive and busy life after his career.

Eye injections – a lifeline to the outside world

November 29, 2023
Jennifer Zhao Zhao

The centenarian, whose bookshelves and cupboards are crammed with biographies, literary classics and the odd Agatha Christie mystery, regards her regular eye injections as a lifeline.

“I’ll work until they put me in a pine box”

April 28, 2023
Michelle Hauschild

Mike can’t retire because he wouldn’t be able to afford the cost of eye treatment that prevents him from going blind.

“Rural ophthalmologists are overloaded with patients. We need more specialists out here”

April 28, 2023
Michelle Hauschild

People who live in rural and remote areas face real struggles to commit to start sight-saving eye injections and to stick with the treatment.

“The cost of my eyes has prohibited us from going on any kind of holiday”

April 28, 2023
Michelle Hauschild

My eyes are our holiday money. I’ve even considered giving up my injections. It’s a

“I don’t feel so alone anymore”

May 31, 2022
Tom Smith

MDFA offers Peer to Peer phone calls as well as peer support groups, both face-to-face and online.

Forced to hang up her knitting needles

May 26, 2022
Tom Smith

Sadly, eye injections came too late for Cheryl Chamberlain. But thousands of Australian patients will now be able to stick to this sight-saving treatment after both major political parties rejected a proposed Medicare rebate cut.

It’s a relief

May 10, 2022
Tom Smith

Anne and 47,000 other Australians are relieved a proposed Medicare rebate cut for eye injections has been rejected.

Rebate cut rejected

May 3, 2022
Tom Smith

The Government and Opposition reject a cut to the Medicare rebate for sight-saving eye injections, which threatened to blind 47,000 Australians.

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Eye injections – a lifeline to the outside world

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