Dame Judi Dench Is Going Blind
Dame Judi Dench tells The Mirror that she's been diagnosed with macular degeneration, a condition that can cause blindness, and is trying to keep her sight. Before she was diagnosed, Judi's eyesight was already starting to go and she needed help reading scripts. It's gotten much worse. Judi's daughter has to read her scripts and she can barely see faces right in front of her. This might be okay if most of the faces in front of her belonged to a Kardashian, but that's not the case for Judi and so day-to-day life has gotten a little harder. Dame Judi explained it like this to The Mirror during an interview:
“I’ve got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old. I had wet in one eye and dry in the other and they had to do these injections and I think it’s arrested it. I hope so.I can’t see your face at all now, but I can see your outline. I can see over there [she indicates the far side of the room, some 15ft away]. The most distressing thing is in a restaurant in the evening I can’t see the person I’m having dinner with. Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.
I know there might be something going on but sometimes I can’t see it and that infuriates me as I think I’m really missing out on something.”
You get used to it. I’ve got lenses and glasses and things and very bright light helps. I can do a crossword if it’s bright sunshine but if a cloud comes out the next minute I can’t see anything.”
Judi misses reading books, but she's going to buy a digital book reader to make the words bigger. Judi also waves away any talk of her retiring and she plans to keep acting for as long as possible.
NOT DAME JUDI! You know, but with or without her eyesight, Dame Judi can still out act most of the young hos out there. Can't somebody donate their eyeballs to Dame Judi? That sentence was mostly directed at White Oprah, because it's not like she ever uses hers to look in the mirror or to see how much she's fucked up her daughters. WELL, it's Dame Judi we're talking about. She's an international treasure.
Submitted by Dirk Diggler on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:37am.
For those of you who've never seen Judy's work outside of the James Bond franchise... I highly recommend "Notes on a Scandal" and "Mrs. Brown."
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She should have won the Oscar for Mrs. Brown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OZL9plvb1U&context=C3a80042ADOEgsToPDskJ... the side eye at the end of this clip is priceless.
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Dirk, "Notes on A Scandal" is brilliant!
what a movie!
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For those of you who've never seen Judy's work outside of the James Bond franchise... I highly recommend "Notes on a Scandal" and "Mrs. Brown."
Dame Judy is a great actress.
And meanwhile, the Kartrashians enjoy perfect health. Life is a bitch.
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Submitted by Condi the ingro... on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 4:42pm.
FYI, although macular degeneration can be due to inherited genes, studies are showing that it might also be tied to high cholesterol and high blood pressure. So - another reason to lose weight and get blood pressure under control. Are you listening, Paula Deen?
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Horseshit. Every disease in the world is used as an excuse to bully people into orthorexic eating habits. Seems the mass media won't rest until we're all deep in eating disorderville.
It's all part of fat hatred, and should be recognized as the bigotry it is.
Losing weight is far from simple, and "healthy eating" does not have magical disease curing powers. My dad lost 100 pounds on a sensible eating program - his health did not improve and he died soon after. We wonder if his fat wasn't actually protecting him in some way, and was not itself the cause of his problems.
Oh, and enough body-shaming about Paula Deen. Your internalized misogyny is showing. Do we ever hear anybody attacking male chefs like Paul Prudhomme for being too fat?
P.S. I'm "overweight" and my blood pressure is lower than normal. Self-righteous health trolls can bite me.
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She needs a lower neck/lower face lift bad.
She is a great actor. I wish her all the best!
@Uptown
Senses often compensate, if that is a bit of comfort. My hearing is a bit compromised, but I can smell and taste unlike most bitches among us. It sucks sometimes, but you just gotta adjust.
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Some aspects of getting older just plain suck, Uptown. I hope that in both your mom's and Dame Judi's case they can stop the degeneration process.
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I really admire that she plans to go on acting. My mom has macular degeneration in 1 eye. It was wet so they could treat it with injections of Avastin, which is actually a cancer drug. It's one of the newer cancer agents and it works by choking off the blood vessel growth that is needed to feed tumors. When used in the eye for this purpose, it cleans up all the blood that has leaked into the retina. I feel really bad tho for my mom bc she has also lost most of her hearing.
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I love this beautiful woman. That is all.
Submitted by Bizzarelife: "It is a priceless and cherished thing to be healthy through and through. Money, fame, etc. etc., means NOTHING without great health. Give me that any day over anything."
ABSOLUTELY.
Health is wealth.
kill the oscar winning actress that is blake lively and take her eyes out and give it to judi dench.
blake doesnt need to read a script anyway.
Clarification. I meant that those of us getting the olds don't give a shit about censoring ourselves, not about world issues. That is all. Party on.
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@Naughty
I can relate. BUT, the most interesting people in the world are those that have lived a while. They have the greatest stories about life, and most are like the Honey Badger. They just don't give a shit. :D
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What a drag it is, getting old!
My mom has this for about 13-15 years. It's not actually blindness, some of the sight is "preserved" if you can call that a preservation. It used to be called age related macular degeneration, but it's not always age related, younger people can have it. MD makes you lose your central vision which is where most of the stuff happens, aka the focused stuff. At first (for a year or so) there are these big black spots and with time it gets better and clearer (still quite blurred though) and you don't get what was lost back, which are the focus and details. It can't be fixed, only halted. Lenses sometimes help if the affected area isn't big enough. It varies everyday, one day you're seeing much better, the other you don't see shit. Sometimes I wonder if total blindness isn't easier to deal with than this.
Submitted by Possum on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 8:22pm.
Getting his guns out of the house, however, was much harder.
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Possum, I feel terrible for laughing at the last line of your post.
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How sad. My grandfather had this and he couldn't see anything right in front of him. Was like a black spot was in front of everything. He kept seeing black spots when he drove (!!!). We were discussing when to take his keys away when he almost ran over a jogger. That scared him enough to stop driving on his own.
Getting his guns out of the house, however, was much harder.
A lot of hypocondriacs in here, darn! I also have this pimple in my rear...oh, yeah, me too!???
Dame Judi is cool with me and she is always good in whatever she is in. I liked her is "As Time Goes By" with Geoffrey Palmer, except when they had her daughter marry her obviously, flaming gay assistant. I kept waiting for her to explain the situation to the girl.
This is such a shame. Judy Dench is an amazing actress. It is scary to have eye issues. My Mom has consistent problems with her own eyes, and she is always frightened when she goes to her eye doctor. People never understand how precious eye sight and good health is in general. It is a priceless and cherished thing to be healthy through and through. Money, fame, etc. etc., means NOTHING without great health. Give me that any day over anything.
Submitted by El Bastardo on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 5:37pm.
Hey there! I was just thinking that I hadn't crossed paths with you in a hundred years. Great to see you again!
Submitted by agirl on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 6:09pm.
Submitted by SalmaNella on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 4:54pm.
My friend was told she had macular degeneration and was able to reverse it with proper diet and nutrition.
It can be done.
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^^This is just not true.
And for some people the disease progresses even with real medical treatment. Each case is different.
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^^^Seconded on the not true. Lutein, fish oil, all that stuff, it does no harm, but it does not REVERSE MD, only keeps you treading water at best, and we're talking a 30% difference, tops. It's almost not worth bothering, given the cost. The injections are the only treatment that reverses MD. I have it (so far only in my left eye, cross fingers), and in some ways my left eye is *better* than my right after a year of treatment. It's a very unpleasant treatment, though, and very expensive, so I'm hoping they get approval reasonably soon for the drops that are in development. Too bad Miss Judi didn't notice hers sooner, but maybe she'll be luckier than some.
Submitted by SalmaNella on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 4:54pm.
My friend was told she had macular degeneration and was able to reverse it with proper diet and nutrition.
It can be done.
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^^This is just not true.
And for some people the disease progresses even with real medical treatment. Each case is different.
I am sorry to hear about this. I used to work for an organization that serves the blind and those with low vision and it is a hard adjustment.
Fortunately, in recent years there's been the development of some truly amazing assistive technology for those with vision loss, which can make things easier than they would have been in the past.
And also, Judi Dench is badass. That is all.
I <3 Judi Dench. This is so sad.
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are you back for a while or do you ship out again?
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Shut the fuck up kid, you're in my closet now.
This is sad. I hope she finds a way to improve her condition.
I have terrible eyesight. It seems to have yet to "plateau", which is unsettling, maybe because I'm in front of a computer all the time. I usually wear contacts, but I don't mind glasses. The only problem is that, even with the high-density lenses, they're still pretty thick. It starts to hurt my nose if I wear them too many days in a row.
The idea of going practically blind is terrible. Maybe followed by losing fine motor abilities in my hands, and losing my teeth. At least these days, though, there are a lot of options when it comes to replacing teeth.
Submitted by Vern on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 5:32pm.
El Bits,
I'll have to check it out. Lots of homework right now, haven't had a chance to play with that hot Bunny! I'm glad you're back, drama queen!
Nope. No dramaqueen crap. Working abroad since November, no chance of DL. :)
El Bits,
I'll have to check it out. Lots of homework right now, haven't had a chance to play with that hot Bunny! I'm glad you're back, drama queen!
:)
*chanting as always*
Shut the fuck up kid, you're in my closet now.
Submitted by Vern on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 5:22pm.
YAY El Bits!!!!!
Miss you around the caption compound!
Haha. First post after a few months was Fridays Bunny CT. Dang, never any drama/alt talk on CT! :)
YAY El Bits!!!!!
Miss you around the caption compound!
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Shut the fuck up kid, you're in my closet now.
@SalmaNella: either she's lying, someone's lying to her, or she doesn't have what she thinks she has. MD cannot ever, ever, ever be cured, lessened, or affected by "diet and nutrition".
"Nutritionist" quacks are murdering subhuman scum-slime. The world would be better without them.
Some people I know recommended a vitamin/supplement called Astaxanthin for eye health. Lutein and Zeaxanthin were also mentioned. Hope this might help someone. Worth googling, if nothing else. :)
Vern. C'est moi! :)
Cheers, Vern!
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Is it REALLY you El Bits?
*giggles and waves furiously*
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Shut the fuck up kid, you're in my closet now.
My MIL had good luck with chelation therapy, and her eye quack recommends lots of vitamins especially zinc.
Plus bilberry mix supplements.
I feed my husband tons of blueberries and spinach, also very good for eyesight. We are trying to ward off the MD.
Good luck to Dame Judi and all you sluts.
@Deb-LOVE the "monetvision" that's what I pretend when I've had to much wine but still commence to painting anyway! :)
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Shut the fuck up kid, you're in my closet now.
Let's hope doctors get her condition under control.
I'm very sorry to hear this. My grandmother had this. She sought treatment from many doctors, but at the time there was nothing that could be done. I hope science advances more in this area.
Damn. Dis aint right.
@little_rascal - Oh honey! I'm sorry for what you are going through. That sucks. I really hope that a cure or at least a treatment that gives some help comes for you.
Rick Santorum IS blind. He obviously can't see that this is 2012, not 1212. Seriously, fucking mullahs and imams in the shit-holes of Pakistan have nothing on this idiot.
I got pretty scared a couple months ago because I was getting blurry vision WITH my glasses on. I officially have hypertension. (And I'm not fat, I exercise, and I quit smoking 2 1/2 years ago). But since I started meds for my blood pressure, and lowered my Cymbalta dose, the blurry events have stopped, thank God.
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My friend was told she had macular degeneration and was able to reverse it with proper diet and nutrition.
It can be done.
I didn't know macular degeneration is inherited but I sure know glaucoma is. :-(
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Smoking also increases ones risk dramatically. Ironically, my father hasn't had a smoke for about 45 years.
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I wonder why her doctors let it get to this point. There are various things which can be done to stem or even arrest the degeneration (especially in the "wet" eye). It's too bad it has come to this, especially if she could have had good intervention.
FYI, although macular degeneration can be due to inherited genes, studies are showing that it might also be tied to high cholesterol and high blood pressure. So - another reason to lose weight and get blood pressure under control. Are you listening, Paula Deen?
the worse thing about going blind? NOT BEING ABLE TO READ DLISTED
EVERYDAY!
stem cell treatment is showing very positive results with macular degeneration. maybe she'll try that, but hopefully under the radar as to not stir up a bunch of screaming mimis.