Living

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...

In part 1 of this article, I discussed finding a low-vision therapist and how they can teach us the skills we need to maintain our quality of life. I shared...

I know that it seems like my diet may only consist of spinach, yellow bell peppers, and blueberries because many of the articles I write center on doing just that...

I recently decided that it would be really helpful to have a Freedom Topaz at home like I have at work. As a result, I decided to contact Blind and...

There was a little problem last weekend. Friday night there was a fire in my rental. No one was injured and the damage was confined to the bathroom. The fire...

One of the questions I get most when discussing my vision struggles with others is, "Why don’t you just get Lasik surgery?" I usually respond with, “I wish I could!”...