Author: Linda Moore

Sue is a confident person but she does get nervous when she knows that people depend on her.  She’s been asked to participate in a project as second in charge and she accepted with the understanding that if her vision worsens, she may not be able to continue.  So let’s offer a…

Yeah Team!

Sue & her husband are on a cruise, a trip that she set up faster than normal so she didn’t have a lot of time to do research.  So while she’s sunning on the top deck of the ship (wearing her good sunglasses, of course), you can read about cruises for those with visual impairments. ::smile::

Cruisin’

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Are these pages the first ones that you’ve read in Sue’s Journal of her Journey with AMD?  We recommend that you read “In the Beginning”.

Two pages today!

Sue has a number of devices to help her with various tasks at work. She has depended on her CCTV.  It died and so she is…

Limping Along

Without her CCTV, Sue had to find some other way to read articles.  She’s written about the app NaturalReader in the past that converts text-to-speech.  It read to her an article that says “The article suggests doctors are not proactive enough in the early stages of the disease [AMD].”  NaturalReader does a great job most of the time but sometimes it can be…

Diffy Cult

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Are these pages the first ones that you’ve read in Sue’s Journal of her Journey with AMD?  We recommend that you read “In the Beginning”.

Sue’s BIG on exercise and she’s not the only one.  In this page, she looks at the connection between exercise and depression.  She writes “To begin with they [researchers] found an exercise a day keeps the psychiatrist away.”

An Exercise a Day

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Are these pages the first ones that you’ve read in Sue’s Journal of her Journey with AMD?  We recommend that you read “In the Beginning”.

Sue loves it when she can find research to support what she has been telling us.  In this case, it’s about the benefits of exercise, including…

Come Dance with Me – Again

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Are these pages the first ones that you’ve read in Sue’s Journal of her Journey with AMD?  We recommend that you read “In the Beginning”.

Sue has news from the stem cell facility about one of the studies she is signed up for.  She also shares some advice to…

Drink Your Fluids

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Are these pages the first ones that you’ve read in Sue’s Journal of her Journey with AMD?  We recommend that you read “In the Beginning”.

Sue continues to talk about the stem cell trials that she has been following.  One called PRELUDE is one she is signed up for where they will be evaluating several outcomes.  She reminds us that there is…

Progress Daily

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Are these pages the first ones that you’ve read in Sue’s Journal of her Journey with AMD?  We recommend that you read “In the Beginning”.

Sue has been on the waiting lists of future research studies, some for quite some time.  The path of research is not always smooth and so timelines are often changed.  She writes about one of the stem cell studies and how a stem cell delivery system will use…

Secret Passages in the Eyeball

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Are these pages the first ones that you’ve read in Sue’s Journal of her Journey with AMD?  We recommend that you read “In the Beginning”.

Why should we be excited about a breakthrough in the treatment of diseases other than AMD?  Sue writes “What I am saying is every breakthrough in one aspect of vision research might lead to breakthroughs in other areas and – drum roll please! – there has been a breakthrough!”  That means…

Our Turn is Coming

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Are these pages the first ones that you’ve read in Sue’s Journal of her Journey with AMD?  We recommend that you read “In the Beginning”.

The eye is a complex and remarkable organ.  We’ve talked about the RPE cells which take care of the photoreceptors which are the rods and cones that give us sight.  One of their jobs is to feed them, another is…

Eye Poop Reduction

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Are these pages the first ones that you’ve read in Sue’s Journal of her Journey with AMD?  We recommend that you read “In the Beginning”.

One of the hardest things to deal with for many who have had to stop driving is that you cannot make last minute adjustments to your schedule.  Sue planned for a full day of activities but got sick.  She writes “I cannot make the marginal call any more. Sometimes I need to use a little discretion.”  That means she sometimes has to…

Make the Safe Call

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Are these pages the first ones that you’ve read in Sue’s Journal of her Journey with AMD?  We recommend that you read “In the Beginning”.