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Wearing sunglasses seems like a simple task. But is it? Signs of spring are everywhere! Longer days, chirping birds, and warmer temperatures have arrived here in the Midwest and I...

Professor and landscape architect Daniel Winterbottom has been designing and building therapeutic gardens for over 20 years. Here, he shares his unique viewpoint on the power of nature to heal...

I started my “new normal” life as a VIP about 50 months ago. I started my “new normal” life as a COVID-19 refugee about 15 days ago. No, I have...

My springtime allergies are making it very hard to focus my itchy, watery, blurry eyes. All this on top of the scotoma from my dry macular degeneration lightly smudging the...

Since most of us are “of a certain age,” I think you will remember cigarette ads on the television. Remember the antics of Joe Camel and the rugged, independent demeanor...

For most of my life, I thought I was like a cat! Throw anything at me and I’d land on my feet. Ahh, the confidence of youth! Remember the days...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, telehealth is being used by more and more people. Telehealth is also sometimes called telemedicine or virtual care. Whether you have been using telehealth for...

The technology needed for virtual healthcare has been around for decades. But virtual care has not been widely used in the United States until recently. The recent public health emergency...

You will find articles on this site and others with lists of questions to ask your eye specialist when you're newly diagnosed with macular degeneration (AMD or MD). I'm not...

I went skiing yesterday. Loved it! I am a pretty mediocre skier but I love being on the mountain on a cold, crisp day with a blue sky and the...

Confession: I cried all day today. Oh, and also...I’m still crying right now. I am a teacher who lives in Illinois and our schools were just canceled for the remainder...

May is National Salad Month! I bet you didn’t even know there was such a thing. But there is...because salads are important, that’s why! For those of us battling macular...

How did we get here? Ok, so by now we’ve seen our optometrist, and they've discovered some anomalies during the eye exam. The optometrist then referred us to an RS...

Here at MacularDegeneration.net, we all have one thing in common... we are struggling with vision loss. Either we, ourselves, have been diagnosed with some form of degenerative eye disease or...

Anybody else a Trekkie? Star Trek premiered in September 1966. That was when I was just starting the eighth grade. The crew of the Enterprise had some really cool things...

My family decided to quarantine in Ohio with some close friends. President Trump declared a state of emergency, school was called off, and the next day I was headed two...

Can I still get my eye injections for my wet AMD in the midst of this crazy pandemic? Initially, I was very concerned about how my RS (retina specialist) was...

These days we are all spending a lot more time at home. Social distancing for the greater good...which is a wonderful showing of solidarity in my opinion. But, that means...

To me, “paying it forward” means, to do a good deed for someone else. It’s a random act of kindness thing. To do something for someone else without expectation of...

I am an educator by day. Something wonderful that my school principal does is send our staff helpful literature each week. This encourages us to think outside the box with...