Scots woman running marathon for blindness charity forced to pull out due to unknown eye condition

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A Scots woman who signed up to run a marathon for a blindness charity was forced to pull out after discovering a previously unknown serious eye condition of her own.

Gail Burns, from Edinburgh, had planned to run the London marathon for the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) in 2022 for her dad, when she discovered that she was suffering from her own serious issues with her eyes that medical attention.Gail was rushed under the knife for two emergency eye operations and, now that she is on the mend, she will run this weekend's Edinburgh Marathon for both her and her visually- impaired father, who lives with incurable macular degeneration."My Father received the news that he had macular degeneration and nothing could be done," she told Edinburgh Live. "This means that he has limited central vision but still thankfully has his peripheral vision."With RNIB's help we adjusted to this and I'm so proud to say that my Father is still a very determined independent man.

I received a place in the London Marathon to run for the RNIB in 2022 but I didn't realise at the time of accepting a place that I too had eye issues which had gone undetected."I had to have an emergency eye operation for a detached retina and then a second operation in 2023.

I sadly had to pull out of the London Marathon twice due to these operations and recovery."As a thank you for all the RNIB have done, Gail now hopes to complete the Edinburgh Marathon on May 28.