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Eyedrops are the most common treatment for glaucoma, however about 10% of the patients, eyedrops do not work. In those cases laser therapy or surgery are the common ways to correct the situation and further prevent vision loss.
One of the greatest dangers associated with glaucoma is increased eye pressure i.e. intraocular pressure which damages the optic nerve and can lead to blindness. In about 90% of the glaucoma cases, the damage progresses slowly and produces no recognizable symptoms until the late stages.Three treatments are used in treating glaucoma. Medications (eye drops) or oral medications, laser therapy and surgery.
Eyedrops lower the intraocular pressure by blocking excess eye fluid or increasing fluid drainage out of the eye. In most cases, eyedrops are an effective treatment. There are some people who do not have success with eyedrops or they forget to use the eyedrops as prescribed. Some people have difficulty getting the eyedrops into the eye; others stop using them because they don't like the side effects (eye redness or burning). Cost can become a factor in skipping medications even though the patient knows they are a necessary regimen for the rest of their life.
When eyedrops stop working and do not reduce the eye pressure, glaucoma patients need to have a laser trabeculoplasty. This is a noninvasive procedure that uses a laser to increase drainage of eye fluids. However, for many patients, this treatment doesn't last forever. About 40% of the people who have the laser trabeculoplasty, require additional or different medication or some form of surgery within five years.
If the laser treatment doesn't help, the next step is the trabeculectomy surgery. The surgeon will remove a piece of the eye wall (the white of the eye) to create a fluid-drainage channel. Excess fluid is then absorbed by blood vessels around the eye.
Glacoma implants are another surgical option. In this procedure, a plastic drainge tube or "shunt" is placed in the front chamber of the eye. Fluids drain through the shunt and the surrounding tissues absorb the fluid from the plate inside the shunt. Implant surgery of this nature is effective, but surgeons are reluctant to use shunts in patients who might instead benefit from trabeculectomy. If the patient has already had one or more trabeculectomy, the surgeon will most likely recommend a the shunt procedure.
Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness and is oftentimes called the "silent thief of sight." Glaucoma can damage your vision so gradually that you don't notice any loss of vision until the disease is at an advanced stage. The most common type of glaucoma is called primary open-angle glaucoma and has no noticeable signs or symtoms other than gradual vision loss.
It is extremely important that early diagnosis be made. It's important to get your eyes examined regularly and make sure your eye doctor measures your intraocular pressure. Primary open-angle signs of glaucoma include gradual loss of peripheral vision (usually in both eyes) and tunnel vision (in the advanced stages). Acute angle-closure glaucoma signs and symptoms include severe eye pain, nausea and vomitting (after eye pain), sudden onset of visual disturbance, halos around lights, blurred vision and reddening of the eye.
Don' twait to see a doctor is you notice or become aware of any eye problems. Regular eye exams are the key to detecting glaucoma early enough so you can have successful preventive treatment. If you are between 18 and 60 years of age, you need to make an appointment with your eye doctor every two years. African-Americans have a much greater risk of glaucoma and need to be screened every three to five year from ages 20 to 29, every two to four years from age 30 to 40, and every one to two years every year after that.
If you have symptoms of a severe headache or pain in your eye or eyebrow and experience nausea,blurred vision or rainbow halos around lights, you may be experiencing symptoms of an acute-angle-glaucoma. Your doctor would encourage you to schedule an examine as soon as possible.
It is important to know that glaucoma can destroy vision before any signs or symptoms are apparent. Be aware that if your eye pressure is higher than normal, you are at an increased risk of developing glaucoma. Be aware that age matters. Everyone older than 60 is at increased risk of glaucoma. For African-Americans, the risk is much higher and is detectable at a younger age than is the case for the general population. African-Americans should begin to have their eye pressure monitored before age 30.
 Madeleine Albright was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia where her father was a member of the Czechoslovakian diplomatic service. When the Communists overthrew the Czechoslovakian government, her father was sentenced to death. At age eleven, Madeleine and her family were granted political asylum in the United States.
After becoming a U.S. citizen, Albright pursued an academic career. She studied political science at Wellesley College and later earned advanced degrees in international affairs from the Department of Public Law and Government at Columbia University.
In 1984, Albright became the advisor to presidential candidate Walter Mondale. In 1989, she became president of the Center for National Policy, a nonprofit research organization. In 1992, she served as President Clinton's senior foreign policy advisor during his campaign. After his election, Clinton chose Albright to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. The website www.womenofyesteryear.com reminds us that Albright was nominated and unanimously confirmed to the position of Secretary of State making her the first woman to serve in the role. The author notes that Albright was a tireless worker for "democracy and human rights and a promoter of U.S. business, environmental and labor relations throughout the world." Albright is a well-known public speaker. The Washington Speaker's Bureau writes that "Madeleine Albright speaks with humor, insight, and eloquence about her life and career...she provides audiences with a unique, no-holds-barred account of service at the highest levels of the American government."
 Jeff Bridges is a very successful actor, musician, producer and composer. In 2010,
Jeff Bridges won the Academy Award for Actor in a Leading Role at the 82nd Academy Awards for his role in the film Crazy Heart. Recently he has also won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in the same film.
Jeff Bridges, the son of Dorothy Bridges and actor Lloyd Bridges, was born and raised in Los Angeles. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard in the late 1960s and was a reservist in the early 1970s. He met Susan Geston on a movie shoot and in 1977, they were married.
Jeff has had a successful career in the film industry. As a teenager, he and his brother Beau appeared in their father's CBS series, The Lloyd Bridges Show. His first major role was in The Last Picture Show, a 1971 movie for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1974, Bridges was again nominated for Best Supporting Actor in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. In 1984 he was nominated for Best Actor for playing the alien in Starman. Other movies for which he received high recognition are: Against All Odds, Jagged Edge and Fearless, which critics believed was his masterpiece.
In the Coen Brothers' film, The Big Lebowski, Bridges played the role of "The Dude". In 2000, he received his fourth Academy Award nomination for his role in The Contender. In 2005 he starred in Tideland; in 2008 he played the role of Obadiah Stane in Iron Man. Jeff Bridges has had major roles in many other movies. He is so deserving of winning the 2010 Academy Award for an Actor in a Leading Role in the film Crazy Heart.
Jeff Bridges has many interests in addition to his roles in movies. Heis a photographer and has published photographs online and in the 2003 Pictures: Photographs by Jeff Bridges. Bridges is a cartoonist with some of his word appearing in films. He is remembered for his narration in the documentary Lost in La Mancha (2002). He also narrated the documentaries Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West (2002, IMAX), Raising the Mammoth (2002, TV), The Heroes of Rock and Roll (1979, TV).
Bridges has done TV commercial voice-over work and ad campaigns for Hyundai and Duracell. In 2010, he and more than 80 musicians recorded the charity single remake of We Are The World.
 At the 2010 Academy Awards, Sandra Bullock was awarded an Oscar and named Best Actress for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in the 2009 movie, The Blind Side. The movie "cost $29 million to make and has grossed over $200 million to date making it Bullock's highest grossing film and the first film in history to pass the $200 million mark . Recently Bullock also won the award for Best Actress at the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in The Blind Side.
Sandra Bullock was born in Arlington, Virginia but lived in Nuremberg, Germany until she was 12 years old and often traveled with her mother, a German opera singer, to opera tours in Germany and parts of Europe. Bullock, who is fluent in German, sang in the opera's children's choir, studied ballet and vocal arts and had small parts in some of her mother's opera productions. Bullock's father was a voice coach and an executive; her grandfather was a rocket scientist from Nurenburg.
Bullock attended East Carolina University but with three credits short of graduating, she left college and moved to Manhattan to pursue an acting career. She worked at various jobs in restaurants as a bartender, cocktail waitress, coat checker, etc. as she tried to get acting auditions. She took acting classes, appeared in several studenet films and landed a role in an Off-Broadway play, No Time Flat. The director was impressed with her acting skills and offered her a part in the made-for-TV movie, Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman.
In Los Angeles, Bullock had several acting opportunities in independent films. In 1990 she established herself as a high-level movie actress with a number of successes including While You Were Sleeping, Miss Congeniality, Speed 2: Cruise Control. Miss Congeniality 2. In 1993 she made appearances in the science-fiction movie Demolition Man starring Sylvester Stallone. In 2002 she starred with Hugh Grant in Two Weeks Notice and in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. In 2004, Bullock had a supporting role in the film Crash and later appeared in The Lake House, starring Keanu Reeves. 2009 was a very good year for Bullock with two record highs achieved with the movies, The Proposal and The Blind Side.
Sandra Bullock runs her own production company (Fortis Films), with her father, John Bullock as the company's CEO. She was the executive producer of The George Lopez Show, and in September 2009, she produced All About Steve.
Sandra Bullock is known for her personal quotes. The quote that follows deals with success, is especially meaningful and provides "food for thought".
"I've learned that success comes in a very pricky package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. It's what you choose to do with it, the people you choose to surround yourself with. Always choose people that are better than you. Always choose people that challenge you and are smarter than you. Always be the student. Once you find yourself to be the teacher, you've lost it".
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