Diabetic Retinopathy: You May Be At Risk
             For my I-search research paper I have chosen: What is diabetic retinopathy? How is it developed and how can it be treated?
             I am interested in this topic because recently I found out that my father has diabetes and one of the things he reported was that his vision was affected. My grandmother also recently began reporting problems with her vision and she has been a borderline diabetic for many years. This is important to me because of the hereditary nature of diabetes, I am at a high risk of developing it myself one day. I wanted to know as much about it as possible since knowledge and awareness will decrease the risk to me significantly. I am also very concerned about my father and grandmother's health and wanted to know as much about the condition as possible. Perhaps with the information I have gained through this I will be able to better understand what they are going through and what may be in store for my future.
             I did not know very much about my topic when I started. I had heard of diabetes before but never really knew what it was, particularly the affect on the eyes. I wanted to know what causes the disease diabetes and how it can be prevented and treated. I also wanted to know how diabetes directly affects the eyes and what can be done about it.
             The search for information was a fairly painless process. Since diabetes has become a common epidemic in our society today there was plenty of really helpful and valid sources to be used. My search started at the CCV Library. I found this to be difficult to use. I did not like the way it was set up and I did not find much information there. This may have been because I did not go about it in exactly the right way. Since this was a source of frustration I decided to resort to other sources for research information. Next I went to the World Wide Web. Here I located more information than I could ever possibly use. I...