Stories

My family is full of blind or half-blind people because of macular degeneration – for generations back. My mom and two of my siblings have been blind from 40 years...

I was diagnosed at 52 with wet AMD in the right eye with no symptoms or anything wrong. I was testing myself one day just to see how eyesight was...

My AMD journey began back in 2006 (age 54) when an optometrist I saw for new computer glasses noticed drusen in both of my eyes. This news was not totally...

I’ll admit that I was horrified when I found out I had wet in the right eye and dry in the left. This was about 8 years ago. The shots...

What do you do to calm yourself before your shots? No joke my doctor said to take a shot before my shot as in a shot of booze! He didn't...

I noticed one morning in June I was having trouble reading the paper. Something looked off. I went that day to the eye doctor. They made an appointment for two...

Almost 2 years ago I noticed a bright light in my right eye. I went to my eye doctor, he realized there was bleeding behind my retina, and he sent...

A year ago @ age 74 I woke up & my right eye had a smear in the center, like Vasaline in my eye. In a few days I went...

I had both parents with dry macular degeneration that never really progressed. My father lived until he was 96, and my mother 108! I was diagnosed with the dry form...

Hi there! My name is Sandy and I am 82 years old. I was diagnosed about 8 years ago (left eye). I have had injections, every 4-6 weeks ever since...

5 years ago I had cataract surgery. A year later, film was detected on my right eye retina. Along with that, something was detected to be wrong with the optic...

My husband started with glaucoma, he did a cataract removal, had a canal operation to drain excessive watering. He is receiving eye injections and that is the hard part, there...

My name is Sue. I am 64 this month. My mother went legally blind at 83 from macular degeneration. Four years ago my eye Dr diagnosed me with this. I...

I am almost 64 and about 1 1/2 years ago I realized that I had a blind spot in my left eye. I knew I had floaters, so I didn't...

At the ripe ol’ age of 5, I was administered my first, of many to come, pair of glasses. Life as I knew it was rather mundane. That was until...

Life can change in an instant! While watching my grandson, I suddenly realized I couldn’t see out of my right eye: I could see light but nothing else. I called...

I was asked how I stayed positive. Staying positive and using positive insight on a daily basis is important even on good days. When something happens to disrupt your normal...

Hello, I am a 64-year-old woman with bilateral dry AMD, diagnosed when I was 58 years of age. My first clue that something was not quite right with my eyes...

I was diagnosed 5 years ago with Dry AMD. Since then to now, my vision has worsened from 20/15 to now of 20/70 left eye and right eye to 20/200...

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