Article: I couldn't afford to eat a healthy diet - and it cost me my sight; DIABETIC TRISH RICHMOND HAD NO IDEA THAT HER POOR EATING HABITS COULD LEAD TO BLINDNESS - NOW SHE'S HOPING TO EDUCATE OTHERS.(Vital)

Byline: MARIA CROCE

TRISH Richmond often runs her finger across a photo of her three teenage daughters and tries to remember what they looked like.

She knows she'll never see them get married or grow old and she won't know the joy of gazing into the eyes of a grandchild.

Because five years ago, Trish went completely blind.

And tragically, she says her sight could have been saved if she'd had enough money for a healthy diet.

Trish, 39, of Motherwell, suffered from diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. Doctors warned her she needed to control her diabetes through ...

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