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Last month, I was chatting with my mom and her heart was heavy for a new friend who is having some pretty serious issues with vision loss. Her friend was...

February is Macular Degeneration and Low Vision Awareness Month where, for an entire month, we intentionally focus on educating others and increasing awareness about life with macular degeneration. This year's...

A while ago the staff at Health Union posed a question: Why did you become an advocate? I was honest. I told them it was rather accidental. Through the back...

Macular degeneration is currently the leading cause of vision loss in America. It affects more than 10 million people – more than cataracts and glaucoma combined. Macular degeneration does not...

Most of us with macular degeneration want nothing more than to protect our eyes at all costs. But, do we have to give up things like wearing makeup in order...

The job of a screen reader is just that: to read what is on the screen you are looking at which is certainly quite a good thing when you can't...

So there I was 62 years old, fat, dumb, and happy and getting close enough to retirement to sniff it. Eight years ago I simply went to an optometrist for...

Whew! What a week it has been. Over the weekend a family member died. Suddenly my schedule for the coming week was crammed full. Children and grandchildren would be arriving...

I’ve been working with people who have macular degeneration since my long-time friend Sue became legally blind in February 2016 from advanced dry macular degeneration, which is also called geographic...

Being a VIP (Visually Impaired Person) doesn’t mean you have to quit enjoying television, movies, plays, and tours. Of course, one thing you can do is to get the biggest...

It’s no secret that those of us living with macular degeneration also sometimes struggle with our emotional health. Worry, anxiety, depression, sadness, fear, anger, and confusion...are all difficult emotions and...

One of the most important aspects of macular degeneration is the need for good lighting. Here's a quick lighting tip to help in the kitchen!  ...

Many of us in the macular degeneration community already use Night Shift on our smartphones. The one where the screen can be changed from a bright blue light to a...

Those of us on the MacularDegeneration.net team were recently given a wonderful opportunity to travel for a conference. Our keynote speaker was a woman who recently lost a pregnancy, lost...

Being left-handed and the subtle discrimination that brings (exactly whom are you calling sinister?!?!) can make me a little feisty. During my research for this page I discovered closed captioning...

Sometimes things we do bring unexpected and great results. A member of my Facebook group said that her mother who has AMD was using binoculars, and when she turned them...

Do you know how sometimes something happens in an instant that completely changes your life? Those 'freak' things that happen so quickly, but seem to be happening in slow motion...

A few pages ago I mentioned dark adaptation. I know just about all of you have experienced the “joy” of reduced dark adaptation even though you may not know the...

Are there times when you just cannot figure out what is in the can in your cupboard because you can't see what's on the label? Have you dropped something on...

It just might be time to subject you - ugh, let us say, allow you to experience - one of my stream of consciousness posts. Here goes... I just called...