I lost my sight to glaucoma at 14 26-year-old final year psychology student
Published 24 January 2021
Globally, January is designated as the Glaucoma Awareness Month, during which people are made to know that though there’s no cure for the eye condition, early treatment can often stop the damage and protect vision. TESSY IGOMU leads our series of stories on those who lost their sight on account of glaucoma and other causes
After years of battling what seemed like ‘ordinary’ eye issues, 26-year-old Lillian Oluwaseun woke up one morning to discover that she was blind.
The final year student of Psychology at the University of Nigeria, Nssuka, Enugu State, is the first of three children, and she lost her sight to glaucoma in 2009 when she was 14.