Suffering from severe glaucoma that could leave her completely blind, Elisabeth Quin spoke about the progression of her illness and how her daughter is experiencing the situation.
It’s in the columns of the magazine Gala that journalist Elisabeth Quin returned to her daily fight: that against blindness. She also highlighted the concern of her only daughter, Oona.
Elisabeth Quin: her daughter, Oona, worried about the progression of her illness
In 2019, the one who presents the magazine 28 minutes, on Arte, had announced that she was suffering from ocular glaucoma – a degeneration of the optic nerve that affects a million people a year in France – which could make her blind. Since then, the 61-year-old journalist has continued to fight, and to highlight her fight to advance research.
In Galashe admitted that her daughter Oona (22 years old, adopted from Cambodia and currently pregnant with her first child) did not always cope well with the situation but has learned to take a step back. “This worried her, she regularly asks me how I am. Laughing, she says to me: ‘I will be your white cane'”said Elisabeth Quin, not without humor. It must be said that between mother and daughter, if ‘there have been ups and downs“in their history, they are accomplices”most of the time“with a”fusion thing that we are wary of“, adds the Arte presenter.
Elisabeth Quin wants to remain optimistic: “I tell myself that there is worse”
Taking stock of her state of health, Elisabeth Quin specifies; “It is a silent and hereditary disease that cannot be detected without having intraocular pressure taken by an ophthalmologist every year or every two years.I put in eye drops twice a day, I have tests every three months, especially to assess my visual fields. It’s unbearable to do, because you see what you no longer see. Plus optic nerve tests, blood pressure readings…”
In any case, the main person concerned wants to be optimistic and refuses to complain or grumble. “After seeing the blind football guys and entire rooms silently communing in the face of this human will… I tell myself that there is worse. And then we live in a country where, even if everything is not perfect, there is still support.”