'I was 29 when road signs became blurry - within a decade I was completely blind'

It was in April 2009, at the age of just 29, that I had my first stroke. Six months later, in September, I had another one. That November, once I was back at work, I was driving home one day and realised I couldn't quite see the road signs...

They could see something in my eye and sent me to A&E. When they looked at my eyes, they saw that my rods and cones - the eye's light receptors - had been affected by my stroke. When they did more tests, they saw there were lots of different diseases attacking my eyes. The core cells were gradually dying. Doctors predicted that, by the age of 40, I would potentially be completely blind.

Read at Independent