Living

The seasons, at times, seem to drag along, the 30-day or so months feel like 60 days or more at times. Especially the winter months in the great Midwest, those...

Did you know it’s possible to get a full-size keyboard that connects wirelessly to your iPad or iPhone? Or for your Android device as well? I hadn’t realized such a...

Your feedback is important! When you have macular degeneration (AMD or MD), you are a valuable resource not only to others with the same condition but to your doctor, as...

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)...

“One move is equal to two fires,” according to my grandmother. We have been in the moving process since the beginning of the year. At this point, it feels more...

March of 2019 was the beginning of my new way of living. That is, of course, when I found out I was living with myopic degeneration. There had been signs...

Much of what we do in our lives today includes technology. This can be good or bad news, but it’s the reality of the world we live in. My work...

Hi everyone, I just thought I'd mention: I finally bought myself a pair of Cocoon fit over sunglasses with the amber tint. I am pleasantly amazed! It’s made a significant...

Recently there was a comment on one of my pages. The reader asked for practical rather than theoretical ways of adapting to vision loss. Progressive vision loss seemed to be...

Recently we had a question from one of our great community members regarding post-injection floaters. Most of us who get the injections have floaters lasting anywhere from a few hours...

Life with grandchildren is always an adventure. I have found with each additional grandchild, I am certainly not the same parent-type as I was with our own children. Interacting with...

I am not a robot! Really, I am not. However, it seems that a lot of places think I am and shut me out of their systems. I was on...

Spring is here and Easter is on the way... but those aren’t the Easter eggs I’ll be writing about in this article. There is another type of Easter egg defined...

After my dry macular degeneration diagnosis 8 years ago, I started taking eye vitamins. It didn’t seem complicated. Many eye doctors recommended PreserVision based on the AREDS 2 study. However...

I don't know about you guys, but I am constantly aware that my eyes are touched so much. When I was a kid it always felt really gross to think...

Watching your food move around your plate and then fly off the table would be distressing for anyone. My mother had been “seeing things” for quite a few months, but...

Remember a few years back when everybody was trying to predict how long you would live by having you stand on one foot and shut your eyes? Those who toppled...

December is quickly ending. This in-between week from Christmas to New Year’s Day has a sense of “what next” to it. The Covid-19 restrictions have certainly put a damper on...

I did a thing today called putting up a boundary and standing up for what is right. That may or may not sound like a huge feat, but for me...

I was diagnosed at age 58 with the beginnings of macular degeneration. I had all the risk factors; my mother had lost her central vision to dry macular degeneration, I...