Sharon Moore

I don’t know about you, but I kept my diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) secret from everyone except my closest family members. I had many reasons for not sharing...

Recently a friend told me she wished she had known she was going to live this long. She added, “If I had known that when I was young, I would...

Recently I was giving Robert, my husband, a haircut. It was so painful because of arthritis in my hands that I told him this was his last haircut at home...

When newly diagnosed with macular degeneration, you can quickly become overwhelmed with trying to make all the recommended lifestyle changes. Almost every day, a newly diagnosed age-related macular degeneration (AMD)...

Little did I know that my life was going to be turned upside down over the coming months this time last year. Day by day, as I listened to the...

I was diagnosed with dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) a few months after having cataract surgery at the age of 65. I began seeing a retinal specialist two years ago when...

In the few short months that I have been a Patient Leader for MacularDegeneration.net, I have been disturbed by the comments from the macular degeneration (MD) community regarding the care...

When I was diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) at the age of 66, I was not too surprised. After all, my mom and my younger sister both had wet...

Vision loss was something I learned about early in life.  At a young age, my father lost the vision in one eye as the result of an accident. The loss of...

It’s November the month our nation sets aside a special day to be thankful. Already I am seeing numerous posts on social media asking people to post one thing a...

Whew! What a week it has been. Over the weekend a family member died. Suddenly my schedule for the coming week was crammed full. Children and grandchildren would be arriving...