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The popular Jacob Hård has been a journalist for more than 40 years. He started out as an understudy in radio sports, but eventually moved onto television, and that’s where he’s made the biggest impression. Through what feels like a pleasant eternity, he has warmly guided viewers along with length expert Anders Blomquist on SVT’s acclaimed Vinterstudion show.
In the fall, he received the Grand Prize for Journalist.
– Absolutely unreal. I was completely taken aback because in my conscience the award is so strongly associated with social journalism and big revelations. He hadn’t even thought about the idea that he could get it, Hård says in an interview with Aftonbladet.
Five years ago, many of those who had watched the popular commentator’s broadcasts wondered if something had happened to Jacob Hård. He looked different with dark circles around his eyes.
Talk about the disease
After the Falun World Cup in 2015, Hård explained that there were explanations for the apparently different appearance. It was due to a reaction from a drug to treat glaucoma.
– I had many reactions, but I changed those drops for others. Then I had laser treatments so that the disease is under control. Right now I don’t need drops to affect my appearance. Cataracts are potentially very serious. If you don’t treat it and keep it under control, it is a path to blindness because it destroys the optic nerve. What is destroyed also cannot be repaired, and in my opinion some are destroyed, but most people can slow or stop that development with medication and surgery if they start early.
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Facts: Falls
Open-angle glaucoma (glaucoma) is an eye disease that causes the optic nerve in the eye to wither away. Increased pressure inside the eye damages the retina. The lesions give a slowly narrowing field of vision and without treatment you can go blind. If you have open-angle glaucoma, you will be treated and monitored for life.
Source: The care guide
For the rest, the 65-year-old, who says in the interview that he wrote on “a lot of paper” to postpone retirement, is safe and sound. If you ignore your osteoarthritis it causes problems with your knees.
– It will certainly end in an operation and a knee replacement. It’s the cartilage that disappears, so it feels a little different. A pain is that sharp, I have it in one knee. The other is more excruciating pain. I imagine it will eventually be an operation, but they don’t want me to run if you’ve had an operation like that and I want to run and stay out. I can go to the gym because I know it’s good, but it’s not very fun, says Jacob Hård.
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