‘I couldn’t see the centre of the words, it was scary’

The effect of cortisone injections into Anne Moloney’s eyes, which are numbed at the time, is not unlike watching a black wax blob in the liquid of a lava lamp.

“That’s what I see when the liquid is injected. It breaks down in a few days to little floaters and gives the retina a boost,” Anne says.

Anne, 60, from Model Farm Rd, Cork City, needs the injections to maintain some level of vision in her eyes which are affected by diabetic macular retinopathy, an eye disease caused by changes in retinal blood vessels that can affect people with diabetes.