“The disease has gained ground”: the strong testimony of Elisabeth Quin on her fight against her glaucoma

This Thursday, April 27, Elisabeth Quin, presenter of 28 minutes every evening on Arte, confided in her fight against her illness, double glaucoma.

Elizabeth Quin, journalist and presenter on Arte, revealed in 2019 that she has double glaucoma which considerably affects her vision, especially at night or in strong light. Despite this difficult personal ordeal, the journalist continued to work and present her program 28 Minutes with passion. In order to help him in his daily life, his team had to adapt by writing the files and the teleprompters with large characters. Elisabeth Quin also underwent cataract surgery six months ago to reduce some symptoms, but the disease is still present.

“I discovered it by chance and much too late”

She had explained that she would never recover the vision she lost, but that she was determined to continue her work. Despite the challenges she has to overcome, the journalist continues to present her program with professionalism and determination. Guest of Buzz TV for TV Mag, the presenter first confided in her illness and its prevention. “My left eye is a little more damaged than it was then, the disease has gained ground in the left eye but despite everything stabilized thanks to excellent care that I receive at the Quinze-Vingts hospital in Paris, there is a specialized unit for glaucoma and I take advantage of it since I am there, I don’t really want to talk about myself, but I want to say that prevention is really important because it is a silent disease that occurs without you knowing it; I discovered it by chance and much too late“regretted the journalist.

“It is a terrible and debilitating disease”

Elisabeth Quin continues:The disease was already very advanced and if there is a history and heredity, and you don’t know, you have to take the intraocular pressure regularly at your optician’s if you don’t have an ophthalmologist; some can do it, you have to take your blood pressure because it is a terrible and debilitating disease“, she recalled. If the presenter of Arte insisted on speaking about it publicly, it was also a way for her to alleviate her fears. “I read a lot of texts about people, the visually impaired, the blind. Jérôme Garcin had written this book on this blind resistance fighter, Jacques Lusseyran, I was interested in him, Claude Monet, the cataract operation, and so I wanted to think about that, to write. It was no doubt a way of allaying my anguish, because it’s a real anguish to lose your sight“she concluded.