A full-dressed Canadian Mountie!

From one of the Detroit papers:

"Elderly people who lose substantial vision from macular degeneration, strokes, glaucoma and diabetes are at risk of developing a little-understood problem that causes them to see people or shapes that aren't there.

"It's called Charles Bonnet Syndrome, a problem likely to rise as baby boomers get older...

"There is no treatment. But once people know what they have, and that it isn't a mental condition, they learn to live with it. For reasons unknown, it usually goes away after a few years. ... Dr. Lylas Mogk, a Henry Ford Health System ophthalmologist, wants to get the word out that the problem is benign so patients feel better and the medical community doesn't mis-prescribe medication, such as anti-psychotics.

"She said many of her patients like their visions and even may regret it when they go, as did one who missed her daily visions of a full-dressed Canadian Mountie...."

The article goes on, but that was the bit I loved. I'd be sorry too! Maybe even better would be an undressed Canadian Mountie. Wearin' just his hat!