Edward Gillen, 59, woke up one May morning last year and noticed a speck in his eye.
The Massachusetts dad of four and beloved softball coach was just about the retire. Meanwhile, his sight was getting worse by the day. He desperately tried to nail down the cause quickly, but his vision loss deteriorated even faster.
“It was Memorial Day weekend, and by June 1st, I was blind,” Gillen told the The U.S. Sun. After undergoing MRIs, CT scans and an exam from a neuro-opthalmologist, he got an answer.
Doctors told him his vision loss was nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), linked to the Ozempic he’d been on for...
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