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    I Have a Diagnosis

    Yesterday my husband drove me to the Wills Eye Hospital in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania to see an eye specialist about my sudden vision loss.  After much testing ~ including blood work, vegetable dye chasers and lots of eye scans ~ the doctor diagnosed me with Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome (MEWDS).  Doesn’t it sound like I have fizzy water floating around my eye? MEWDS is a rare eye disease that affects young women (so take that “at your age“) between the ages of 14 and 47.  Men can get MEWDS too but women seem to suffer from it by a 5 to 1 average. MEWDS is usually preceded by a…