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Shortly after being diagnosed with macular degeneration, the reality sets in that the way we have done things for years will have to change, possibly in the near future. With...

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of putting broken pottery pieces back together as a metaphor for embracing our imperfections. My son and I recently participated in a seven-week program called...

Impossible Burgers? Beyond Meat? Plant-based meat? What is that? You’ve probably started noticing Impossible Burgers and Beyond Meat at fast food and chain restaurants lately. You may even be seeing...

This F.E.A.R. acronym certainly applies to macular degeneration (MD), among many other things. F - False E - Evidence A - Appearing R - Real Do not: Do: Recently I...

What are the common side effects from eye injections? Ah, yes. Another adventure in age-related macular degeneration-induced legal blindness! Yesterday I went for my monthly study appointment and to get...

I’m not a doctor, I’m just a regular 72-year-old guy that’s had AMD for about 9 years. Certainly, I’m not qualified to give you medical advice, so I won’t. What...

I love to listen to music, of almost any kind, except for rap. But mostly, I prefer music with a gentle story, a message, catchy tune, and intriguing harmony. County...

Doomscrolling is when you continue to read bad news even when you know it is not good for you. A lot of that went on at the height of the...

My tinnitus - the ringing in my ears - is crickets. Not the kind of “crickets” younger people refer to when there is nothing but silence in response to some...

COVID-19 may be a blessing in disguise for those who used the time wisely for personal transformation. The same also holds true for those with macular degeneration. Let’s take a...

Recently I started brainstorming an idea. I had to write an article about the surprising upside to my life with macular degeneration. One of my concerns was coming across as...

I just spent my morning packing for our family’s upcoming vacation to the beach. I’ve found myself sitting here chuckling because I have an entire bag dedicated to ‘eye necessities'...

When we first hear that we have macular degeneration, we may worry that we will lose our central vision and be blind. We then find out that this vision loss...

Way back in the 1980’s when women had really big hair and our business suits had massive shoulder pads, I left my desk job in Washington, D.C., for ten days...

Once upon a time... This story started in 1959. In St. Louis, Missouri, a little girl was born into a family with a Mom and Dad. By the time she...

Recently, I had a $1,000 hamburger! It was delicious and I really enjoyed it! Maybe I better explain this a bit. What do I mean, a $1,000 hamburger? The previous...

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately focusing on gratitude. I’m finding that I’m having to literally retrain my brain to think of the positive rather than the negative...

I recently had a huge scare with my eyes. I started having some pretty severe vision changes that felt really scary so I rushed in to see my doctors. Even...

This is not to scare or dissuade those with macular degeneration (MD) from learning more about MD or finding new treatment options however, there are a number of questionable posts...

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...