Computer Glasses for AMD

This myopic macular degeneration came into my vocabulary in 2019. Before that time, I really did not know much about this disease. I had consistently heard of age-related macular degeneration over the years but never the myopic version of this disease.

Learning

Thus began my season of Learning. The words I learned early on taught me about the attempts to stop the bleeds in my eye. I also discovered the Amsler Grid and how to check up on my vision by checking it every day.

New lessons

I learned about getting injections in the eye itself. I discovered I had a pretty high tolerance for such injections knowing the help they could potentially give.

I learned about patience. The patience of gauging time in 4-week increments to the wonderful timing of 5 months in between office visits. This patience guided me through my personal calendar of life.

I learned how utilizing brighter lights could enhance my creating art time. I learned how downloading books onto my kindle app would keep me deeply intertwined with the latest mystery books out there.

I realized that night driving was not something I needed to be doing for the safety of myself and others. Asking for assistance during those hours was probably the biggest lesson I learned. Asking for help can be hard.

New tool

I just recently had an exciting lesson: After a routine eye exam the doctor determined that my vision had not greatly changed since my last exam. I am always grateful for those kinds of check ups. So I opted to buy “computer glasses”.

Hobbies

A lot of my retirement time is spent painting, drawing, sketching, coloring and I work exclusively with my wonderfully large IMac computer screen, complete with LED lamp and overhead lighting.

To do this, I upload pictures, snapshots and other potential ideas onto my computer and then begin that day's new creation.

Where the glasses come in

I have had progressive bifocal glasses for over 20 years and I have mastered the art of wearing them. It involves the constant shifting of my head, letting the lower half of the glasses see up close and personal and then the bobbing back to “normal” vision.

I struggled to see the full potential of my art project on my 27” Mac Screen. Working on a piece of art just doubled this back and forth bob, frustrating at most.

So after 3 years of degeneration in the eye I have finally purchased “computer glasses”.

The verdict?

I feel like a kid with new school supplies. I love my new “computer glasses”. They are progressive, meaning I have the lower half set for close up work on whatever I am painting, drawing, coloring or sketching. The upper half brings the computer screen image perfectly into focus.

No longer am I bobbing up and down, back and forth while I dabble in my favorite pastime. The area that needs to be in focus is in focus and I could not be happier.