Living

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...

When we travel, I generally buy at least one refrigerator magnet. The front - and side! - of the fridge is pretty much covered. There is, however, at least one...

I started this journey in late 2018, early 2019. Somehow those years have slipped by really quickly. A situation that I had not anticipated at all snuck up on me...

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Mankind is at the top of the food chain, we are apex predators. But what can we learn from animals, supposedly the lesser species? Let me start out by saying...

Recently, a member of our site asked a question: “Can I wear a patch on my bad eye in order to see better?” This really got me thinking and researching...

Editor's Note: This article was originally written by Brown Eyed Girl, a MacularDegeneration.net Community Health Leader. Looking at all these newly-bought vegetables recently on my kitchen counter, I wondered what...

I’m extremely passionate about the mental health aspect of disease diagnoses. I recently realized, through my own healing process, that much like stages of grief, I have experienced emotional stages...

As I said in my last article, ‘Tis the season! Tax season. Yuck! Taxes are miserable enough to file whomever you may be, but what do you do if you...

This is part 2 of the above-titled article. The idea for this 2 part article came about as a result of a recent poll on our site, MacularDegeneration.net. The poll...

I still feel as though I am navigating the early stages of this diagnosis of myopic macular degeneration. It has “only” been about a year and a half have since...

I recently came across a column called “Lessons Life Taught Me” by Regina Brett, and realized I have learned some lessons myself from living with macular degeneration. My “Living my...

Everything gets better with time... It’s February 6, 2021 and we are still in the midst of a global pandemic; which for me means that my son is still doing...

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...

Macular degeneration may be stealing my vision, but it can't have my joy! At the beginning of November, I started having some pretty scary vision changes. I was diagnosed with...