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Will you leave a sight-saving legacy like Joan? By leaving a gift in your Will, you’ll be ensuring that there will always be support for people living with sight loss, long into the future. Crucially, you’ll be funding groundbreaking research until there is a cure for macular disease. For every person diagnosed.

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There are many reasons why you might be considering a gift in your Will to the Macular Society.

Tell us about your career as a retinal specialist:

“I’ve been a consultant ophthalmologist for 22 years, and I’m the Director of the Clinical Eye Research Centre in Liverpool. I trained in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds as an ophthalmologist, but I made it clear that I wanted not only to bring the clinical element to my profession, but the research side too. So I’ve always been actively involved in research, which is also at the heart of our profession.

I was diagnosed in my early forties, about 25 years ago.

Q8 - Accelerating research is going to cost a lot of money, isn’t it? Where will that come from?

Answer: Yes, research is expensive, but we are wholeheartedly committed to strengthening and expanding our involvement in the years to come. Money will come from a variety of places but it’s fair to say that we will get there quicker with the help of our donors and members, and especially those kind people who leave a donation to research in their Will. It is such a generous and significant thing for someone to do. Every donor is important to us, and I would like to thank everyone who has ever given and anyone thinking about doing so. It is safe to say that all our colleagues at the Macular Society feel the same and we are grateful to everyone joining us in the fight to Beat Macular Disease.

My experience of macular disease began with my mother. She was born in 1899 and was in her seventies when she began having vision problems. One day she woke up blind in one eye, and maybe a few days or weeks later, she woke up blind in the other. It was pretty sudden.  

At the time – it was the 1970s – nobody said it was macular disease because I don’t think they knew for certain. But it was. And of course there wasn’t any treatment in those days.