Stevie Nicks has revealed she’s getting injections successful her oculus each mates of months aft an contented with her vision.
The 76-year-old Fleetwood Mac fable has been diagnosed with bedewed macular degeneration, which is described by the NHS arsenic a information ‘that affects the mediate portion of your vision’.
‘I got diagnosed with this happening a twelvemonth and a fractional agone called bedewed macular degeneration, and it is not a bully thing,’ she said, revealing however the information has impacted her sight.
She explained: ‘I was seeing each these colors, large things of purple. I was having, like, acerb trips. And I’m going, “I’m not taking immoderate acid, truthful I don’t recognize what this is.”‘
As a effect of the condition, Stevie present needs regular injections to assistance support the contented nether control.
‘Now, each six, seven, eight, 9 weeks, I person to person a changeable successful each 1 of my eyes. That’s going to beryllium for the remainder of my life,’ she told Rolling Stone.
What is bedewed macular degeneration?
- According to the NHS, ‘age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is simply a communal information that affects the mediate portion of your vision. It usually archetypal affects radical successful their 50s and 60s’
- Dry macular degeneration is typically much communal and gradual
- Wet macular degeneration is rarer and much serious, and tin make faster
- While the nonstop origin of AMD remains unclear, it’s been linked to precocious humor pressure, smoking, being overweight, and a household past of the condition
Stevie besides opened up astir getting older successful the interview, insisting she expects to lone unrecorded ‘another 15 years’.
Discussing her Covid fears, she said: ‘I mean, I’m old, truthful I’ll lone beryllium astir for different 15 years. But you guys person different 30 oregon 40 years, truthful you should deliberation astir it.’
The Dreams hitmaker – who insisted she is ‘not acrophobic of dying’ – joked she’ll really ‘probably unrecorded to beryllium hatefully 95 years old’, but insisted she has nary involvement successful reaching that age.
‘I mean, I’ll person an electrical scooter, and I volition beryllium raging and I volition support dancing. But I’m not looking guardant to that, truly — I deliberation that’s excessively old,’ she said. ‘My ma died astatine 84, and my dada died astatine astir 80, but I’m a younger idiosyncratic astatine 76 than they were astatine 76. So I figured 88, 89.’
Over the summer, Stevie was forced to postpone dates connected her UK circuit after suffering a limb wounded which required a ‘minor surgical procedure’.
During a rescheduled gig successful Glasgow connected July 24, she opened up astir the scary situation.
‘I don’t cognize what happened. I conscionable got this weird infection, and it conscionable went crazy,’ she told fans astatine the time. ‘I yet conscionable looked astatine my adjunct – it was similar 2 successful the greeting – and I said, “I deliberation we request to spell to emergency.”
‘She looked astatine maine and I said, “I’m not kidding! I deliberation we request to spell to the hospital.”‘
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