Living

No matter your diagnosis or how long you have been challenged with macular degeneration (MD), we all know there is definitely a downside and to ignore that it exists is...

Life is a journey, not a guided tour... Once upon a time, perhaps back in the 1980s, that phrase seemed to be everywhere. From note cards to coffee cups, we...

I was very fortunate in being born in St. Louis, Missouri, the Midwest, to a very loving family. I was born to young parents, number three of four daughters, in...

I was reminded the other day of some of the additional costs of living with macular degeneration. I had been shopping for a battery for my portable lighted magnifier, when...

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...

I was in my kitchen last weekend cooking up some chili for a family chili cookoff. It was a beautiful fall morning. The kind where the windows are open and...

Sometimes, the time between retinal rechecks feels like a honeymoon of sorts. Definitely not the holiday at the beach kind of honeymoon, more like an escape from the real world...

This year has been strange and difficult for everyone. In this very unusual 2020, my family experienced a rare and unfamiliar condition relating to my mother’s eye health. I asked...

This is yet another attempt at trying to assure I - and everyone else - do NOT become roadkill. I don’t know about you, but speaking for myself, that sort...

Last fall was a really difficult time in my life. My sweet grandmother passed away and my ex-husband’s alcoholism spun out of control. I was working two jobs and parenting...

When your vision begins to deteriorate, there are some simple things you can do immediately to make life a little easier. As needed, you will find other creative ways to...

It didn’t happen this way, I wish it had but it sure didn’t! Let’s enjoy an imaginary journey back in time. What I know now about macular degeneration is not what...

Many of us here at MacularDegeneration.net are experiencing or are helping to care for a loved one with vision loss. There are a lot of clear complications that arise due...

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...

When my mother was in her mid-sixties she noticed problems with her vision and went to the best eye specialist she could find. He told her that she had dry...

I recently wrote an article focusing on something my macular degeneration makes it more difficult to do. Which was seeing colours well. Before that, one about the difficulty of applying...

I noticed a tendency in myself and others after a diagnosis of macular degeneration to become depressed and to play the “what if” game,  this is, I think, a mistake...

Two years ago at age 65, I qualified for Medicare. In order to “get it right,” I called on an expert. Her name was Sandy and she worked at the...

It’s an election year and the big day is quickly approaching. With so much going on in our world and country, this election is proving to be more important than...

In about 2 months, I will have an anniversary. The end of January 2016 was when I “lost” the central vision in my second eye. January 2021 will be 5...