MACHESNEY PARK, Ill. (WIFR) – Andrea Coogan keeps the blinds down inside her home. The 45-year-old closes her fridge and returns to the living with eye drops.
“I live off these,” she describes. “I use 25 to 35 vials a day.” The vials Coogan holds cost about $170 every 3 months. “These are my blood serum tears made out of my own blood.”
The drops offer rare relief for the legally blind woman…