Stephen King Is Going Blind

Internet Movie Data Base ^ | 5/10/02 | World Entertainment News Network.

[jalisco555]

Horror writing superstar Stephen King is going blind, after developing a condition called Macular Degeneration. The Green Mile novelist - who was severely injured in an car accident in June 1999 that left him in critical condition - claims he has a hereditary disease and that he could lose his sight at any moment. But King refuses to let the prospect of blindness get him down. He says, "At least I'm alive - that's the way I feel about it."

[jalisco555]

This is extremely sad news. I haven't been a King reader since I burned out on his books in the 80's but everything I've ever heard about him indicates that he is a really nice guy.

[Jonathon Spectre]

And Bill Clinton continues to live and see... no justice in this world at all...

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

I just hope he finishes the Dark Tower series! Okay, that's a bit selfish. I really do wish him the best.

[Young Werther]

The ocular implant is being developed by the same crew that developed the cocklear implant. May 9 2002 Drudget report linked to a report regarding six subjects, some of whom have macular degeneration, as having regained some rudimentary sight.

Maybe Stephen King can "pull a Rush" and become "bionic" as well.

[Argus]

King is a good guy who's never let celebrity go to his head. It's a shame the bad breaks he's had here, and getting hit by that truck. At his best he's a much better writer than he's often given credit for, too.

[Inspectorette]

My dad developed Macular Degeneration when he was in his late sixties; it usually happens when a person is quite a bit older than Stephen King is. I don't think it's something that comes on suddenly, it develops slowly over a period of time. The person retains peripheral vision, but gradually loses the ability to see straight ahead. I think there are some therapies available that don't actually cure the condition, but that can slow down the progress.

[Rocko]

Awful news, but it probably won't stop him! Good luck, Steve!

[steve-b]

They say that the good die young. If so, Bill Clinton will live to be a thousand years old -- and will retain the personality of an adolescent for every day of it.

[dead]

From yesterday’s NY Post:

Innocence lost

A SLIMMER, gray-whiskered Stephen King was showing off his black sense of humor at The New Yorker's spring book party at the Altman Building the other night. King, who was nearly killed three years ago while walking along a Maine road, was chatting up the likes of Salman Rushdie, Art Spiegelman and Nora Ephron when an inebriated fan told him, "Seeing 'The Shining' when I was 8 ruined my childhood." Flashing a satanic grin, the horror master replied, "Good! That's exactly what I was going for."

[BluesDuke]

Any man who is a Boston Red Sox fan can't be all that bad. Aside from which, I am convinced that, when all is said and done, his acknowledge masterworks will be deemed a tossup between The Green Mile and his novella, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. Meanwhile, I wish him well, even knowing that not even blindness would necessarily stop him. (It sure didn't kill James Thurber, and extremely weak eyesight was no hindrance to Aldous Huxley, either...)

[adx]

Considering that he gets back to that series once every few years or so, don't expect it to get finished (he's still got three more to go).

[SamAdams76]

That's a shame to hear. Stephen King helped turn me into an avid reader. I cut my teeth on his novels in high school back in the 1970s and never stopped reading since. He's a good guy and a New Englander to the bone. I was hoping he'd buy the Red Sox when they were up for sale last year as he would have been the perfect owner. But I'm sure he'll find some way around his handicap and keep writing books anyhow - should he desire to do so.

[vance]

Bad things happen to all the wrong people it seems at times.

[ElectricStrawberry]

I just hope he finishes the Dark Tower series! Okay, that's a bit selfish. I really do wish him the bestThat's the same that I've been thinking ever since he got run down in the street.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

He's not done yet!!!

[Cachelot]

But I'm sure he'll find some way around his handicap and keep writing books anyhow - should he desire to do so.

Someone once asked him why he wrote so much. Answer: "Why do you think I have any choice?"

He'll keep writing. Using voice-recog software if he has to :).

[TheLurkerX]

I love King, but I gotta admit, I'm pissed that Roland lost his fingers.

[flada]

But he got his revenge by eating a bunch of those lobstrosities.

[Talkwire]

Take your Lutein and Carotenoids.

[BibChr]

I just hope he finishes the Dark Tower series! Okay, that's a bit selfish

Ya think??

Dan
(PS -- I know what you mean; couldn't stop myself!)

[Lazamataz]

:o(

Prayers going out to the man.