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Katelyn Catanzariti

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Glaucoma played tricks on inxs s pengilly - Caught on Camera

Glaucoma sufferer Kirk Pengilly says he came within a millimetre of going blind. (AAP)

When you're in your 20s, touring with a rock band about to hit the international big time and start seeing things, the natural conclusion is you've probably overindulged.

Not once did Kirk Pengilly from INXS imagine those "foggy halos" he could see around street lights after their shows in the mid 1980s were a symptom he had the "old person's disease" of glaucoma.

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