<p id=”par-1_47″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/stevie-nicks/?swcfpc=1″>Stevie Nicks</a> recently revealed that a diagnosis has changed the way she approaches her <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/music/”>creative</a> life. At 76, Nicks remains highly creative and has made major plans for her artistic future. She explained that this is in part because she’s worried her condition might alter her life.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-stevie-nicks-said-a-recent-diagnosis-has-given-her-concern-for-her-eyesight”>Stevie Nicks said a recent diagnosis has given her concern for her eyesight</h2>
<p id=”par-2_32″>Recently, Nicks began to notice <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/stevie-nicks-nearly-lost-vision-48-hour-party.html/”>problems with her vision</a>. When she went to the doctor, they diagnosed her with wet macular degeneration, an eye disease that causes blurred vision or blind spots.</p>
<p id=”par-3_88″>“I got diagnosed with this thing a year and a half ago called wet macular degeneration, and it is not a good thing,” Nicks told <a href=”https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/stevie-nicks-fleetwood-mac-kamala-harris-new-music-1235140437/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Rolling Stone</a>, adding, “I was seeing all these colors, big things of purple. I was having, like, acid trips. And I’m going, ‘I’m not taking any acid, so I don’t understand what this is.’ Now, every six, seven, eight, nine weeks, I have to have a shot in each one of my eyes. That’s going to be for the rest of my life.”</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-1″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stevie-Nicks.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Stevie Nicks wears a black dress and holds a microphone in one hand.” class=”wp-image-3732447″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Stevie Nicks | Michael Kovac/WireImage</figcaption></figure>
<p id=”par-4_31″>Her mother had a similar condition. After watching her deal with it, Nicks said she realized how important it was to take advantage of her vision while she still has it.</p>
<p id=”par-5_110″>“There’s dry macular degeneration, which my mom had. Her whole thing was doing the financial books for my dad, because she was a financial little wizard,” she said. “When she was about 80, it was really hard for her to see. In a way, I think it killed her because she was so brokenhearted that she could no longer do this. So when I got diagnosed with this, all of a sudden, I’m going like, ‘You know what? You need to finish these drawings, because what if you start to lose your sight?’ I haven’t drawn in years … but my drawings are as important to me as my songs.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-she-described-painting-as-one-of-her-most-cherished-hobbies”>She described painting as one of her most cherished hobbies</h2>
<p id=”par-6_24″>While Nicks’ artwork is nowhere near as well known as her songwriting, she said she hopes to show her work to the public soon.</p>
<p id=”par-7_61″>“I’m really proud of all the stuff that I’ve done. My drawings are very precious to me,” she said. “I will, maybe next year, do a big art show. I have so much poetry that just doesn’t make it to the piano. Or makes it to the piano and I realize that it’s really just not meant to be a song.”</p>
<p id=”par-8_19″>Another hobby she greatly enjoys is painting her nails. She said she’s better at it than people might imagine.</p>
<p id=”par-9_74″>“It’s a silly thing to say, but I do my own nails,” she said. “This is the first time they’ve been white in 20 years — I didn’t have time to put the gold on them before the last show. People say, ‘Who did your nails?’ And I go, ‘Me, because I’m the best manicurist in the world.’ Nobody does them as good as me, so why would I let anybody else do them?”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-stevie-nicks-shared-how-another-diagnosis-has-impacted-her-life”>Stevie Nicks shared how another diagnosis has impacted her life</h2>
<p id=”par-10_39″>Years before Nicks learned she had wet macular degeneration, she <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/epstein-barr-stevie-nicks-says-sickness-makes-tired.html/”>discovered that Epstein-Barr</a> was making her feel fatigued. While she said she is not currently experiencing symptoms, it exhausted her as she worked on her album <em>Trouble in Shangri-La</em>. </p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-2″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stevie-Nicks-1.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Stevie Nicks wears a black dress and stands in front of a white background.” class=”wp-image-3732448″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Stevie Nicks | Kevin Winter/Getty Images</figcaption></figure>
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<p id=”par-11_51″>“Once you have [Epstein-Barr], you have it always,” she said, per the book <em>Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams, and Rumours</em> by Zoë Howe. “I don’t have the symptoms right now. If you get all depressed and worn out, it comes back. It has a lot to do with your state of mind.”</p>
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