Elton John is determined to keep what eyesight he has left.
He tells The Guardian, “I’m an optimist permanently. I’ve got bad eyesight at the moment. There have been days where I’ve been miserable, but then I think about how lucky I am…
“I’ve got a new respect for sight-impaired people and people who are totally blind, some of whom I’m in touch with. But to hell with it, I’ve got a great life, and hopefully my sight will improve … I’ve overcome a lot. This is not going to beat me. I’ve beaten addiction, I’ve beaten health issues, and I can pick myself up and dust myself off.”
Last summer, Elton’s right eye became infected, which he says left him with “limited vision.” Since then he went blind in that eye and his left is not much better. Here is Elton John on not being able to see out of his right eye.
“There’s hope and encouragement that it will be okay, but I’m kind of stuck in the moment, because going into the studio and recording, I don’t know, because I can’t see a lyric for start. We’re taking an initiative to try and get it better. But at the moment that’s really what we’re really concentrating on. It’s never fortunate for anything like this to happen. And it kind of floored me, and I can’t see anything, I can’t read anything, I can’t watch anything.”
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