Annual eye exams highlighted during Vision Health Month – Anishinabek News
April 28, 2025
WINDSOR — The Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB)’s Ryan Hooey is raising awareness of the importance of annual eye examinations for people with diabetes for Vision Health Month in May.
“One of the great things that’s happening is there are some programs out there in Ontario that will do eye screening for diabetic retinopathy,” says Hooey, manager of major gifts at the CNIB and citizen of Keeseekoowenin First Nation in Manitoba. “They will use AEYE devices, they will use handheld devices and these are available at your nation. It early detects and it could save your vision, it will detect early-on stage development of diabetic retinopathy, and that’s the eye condition I have. With the advances in technology, there’s even better treatments out there that might be able to help you save your eyesight or even reduce vision loss.”
Hooey, who has lived with type 1 diabetes since he was seven-years-old, says he woke up one morning about 13 years ago unable to see due to diabetic retinopathy when he was 26-years-old.
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