Glaucoma - the sneak thief of sight. Glaucoma is known as ‘the sneak thief of sight’. It is a disease in which the optic nerve head is slowly damaged by increased pressure in the eye. It is the leading cause of preventable blindness in Australia with one in eight Australians over the age of eighty developing glaucoma. The scary part of glaucoma is that it usually has few or no initial symtoms - living up to it’s ‘sneak thief of…