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media type="custom" key="5000291" JMJ Jonathan Bartlett May 7, 2010 LA2 Destroying Vision Bit by Bit

A beachgoer happily swims in the ocean, but while swimming a shark goes unnoticed. As it hunts closer and closer with a black fin skimming the surface, the unknowing swimmer falls into a worse and worse position. Suddenly the shark attacks and bites off a leg. Blood spews everywhere turning water into bloody tomato soup. With almost no chance of ever recovering the leg, the new amputee limps through the rest of life. Similarly Open Angle Glaucoma victims must feel like the shark victim because the disease can often advance unnoticed before it is too late. To not end up a victim people should know three things about glaucoma. First, what glaucoma is, and what it does to its victims. Second, what makes people more likely to have glaucoma, and third, what are some treatments. Open Angle Glaucoma, also known as Chronic Simple Glaucoma, is a disease of the nervous system that affects the eye. It is caused by an increase of eye pressure. That pressure increase is caused by a blockage in the fluid draining from the eye. As the fluid amount increases in the eye, the pressure increases. That increase damages the optic nerve bit by bit until it is so damaged that the patient cannot see. A vital nerve leading to the brain, the optic nerve is crucial to vision. The disease often advances unnoticed because the only symptom is a slow loss of peripheral vision. Since glaucoma seems like an awful disease to have, people should know what makes them susceptible to this terrible disease. There are certain characteristics that make people more likely to get glaucoma. Especially in people forty or older, age can increase the risk of glaucoma. Naturally high eye pressure can also lead to glaucoma. Although people over forty have a risk increase, people over seventy are four to seven times more likely to get glaucoma than a person from the ages of forty to fifty. People with a family history of glaucoma also have to watch out for it. Interestingly people with Diabetes have to be wary of this disease because Diabetes causes high eye pressure. What is very interesting is that African-American people are four times more likely to get glaucoma than white people. Since glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness in the U.S., one might think that a cure would have been made. Current research says glaucoma does not have a cure, but it has many treatments. “Once glaucoma has done its damage to the optic nerve the cells cannot regenerate” (Fekrat, Weizer 119). Even though cells cannot regenerate doctors have found a way to restore some vision in children. If someone was diagnosed with glaucoma a treatment a doctor might recommend would be pills or eye drops. To keep the vision that remains, patients have to take medication for the rest of their life. If the medication does not work, then other measures are taken. One other type of treatment is laser treatment, a short, painless procedure where a doctor tries to create a new drain for the eye fluid. Another type of treatment is using high frequency sound waves to reduce the amount of fluid in the eyes. Though treatments are available the disease has no cure. Glaucoma can leave a person fumbling and blind for the rest of their life. There are treatments, but they cannot restore vision that has already been lost n a patient. There are many factors that contribute to getting glaucoma that people should be aware of. So, if someone starts loosing peripheral vision and it keeps getting worse, they should see an eye doctor. They might have that, deadly shark, otherwise known as Open Angle Glaucoma.

JMJ Jonathan Bartlett June 7, 2010 Rd 5 Letter to Jonathan

Dear Jonathan, Hello older version of me. Right now I am in seventh grade. I am five foot and two and a half inches and I have just passed my mom in height. I have never broken a bone yet, and haven’t been to the hospital for anything serious. This year I have found a new liking in piano and I have learned how to play about 7 songs. My favorite pass time is probably lowering basketball hoops and dunking on them. I also like running short distances. My current 100-meter time is thirteen point six seconds. For my birthday I got an Iron Gym, and I have the school record in pull-ups. Some of my friends right now are Bryce Gildner, Alex Rokosz, Regan May, Ricky Kubly, Connor Hanson, Sean McGowan, Jack Pulito, and John Happ. I spend a lot of time playing basketball with them, and dunking on a lowered hoop. Tennis is also a thing I do with my friends a great deal of time. At recess we mainly play four square and spend way too much time with petty arguing over who got out. Recently Ricky, Danny Yadgir, Regan, Bryce and I formed a band. We have an enormous repituar of one song “Day Tripper” and are currently working on “Sweet Home Alabama.” In the world this year some major events some tragic, some great, some political have happened in our world. In the Gulf of Mexico tragic oil spill occurred and will cause billions of dollars in damage to the economy and permanent scars on people’s lives. This year the Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver Canada, where the U.S. won the medal race. In the Political world the congress passed nationalized health care. Also an Earthquake in Haiti took place killing hundreds of thousands of people and making thousands more homeless. Our school had a penny war to help the Haitians. My favorite teacher this year is probably Mr. Carloni.