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Author: Linda Moore
Sue’s New Pages 8/3/2017
Do you have a blind spot (called a scotoma)? Does it make reading difficult? There are techniques called eccentric viewing and steady eye strategy that can help you to use your peripheral vision and the to look past…
Sue ran out of work which rarely happens. Is there an art to doing nothing? In other words, can you “engage in nonproductive or inconsequential activity” which she calls…
Sue’s New Pages 8/2/2017
There are some of you who ARE caregivers, some of you who HAVE caregivers. For Sue, her current caregivers are those who get her where she wants to go and those who help her with something she can’t do or read. What does the burden of caregiving do to our relationships with our spouses, partners, family members? What can we do to help them?
One of the fears of AMD is that of going totally blind. Sue searched for specific information about how much of her visual field would be affected by her advanced AMD (geographic atrophy) and found what she thinks are some answers. And again, she says…
Sue’s New Pages 8/1/2017
As you know, many of the pages that we are posting now have been written months ago. Some are more current when they are responding to topics that come up in the Facebook group. Sue and I have decided that we will start posting 2 pages at a time in an attempt to get caught up with ‘real time’.
We’ve talked about the grieving process that is part of dealing with a diagnosis of AMD and other vision-changing eye diseases. There are stages to grieving, one of which is acceptance. In terms of DBT, there is radical acceptance which teaches “it is what it is” and has us asking…
Sue practices what she preaches. She writes about contributing to the lives of others as one way to deal with distress a la DBT. When she wrote this page, she needed something that didn’t take much time or effort (or crafting skill ::smile::). She found quite a few great ideas for…
Sue’s New Page 7/31/2017
There are some words you don’t want to use when talking to Sue: “can’t” and “should not”. The only thing that she truly “can’t” do now is drive. She believes that with everything else, there is…
- Category: Sue’s Musings
- Keywords: bike, biking, independent, interdependent
Do you have any suggestions for other categories or keywords? Let me know in a comment here or send me an email at light2sight5153@gmail.com.
Sue’s New Page 7/30/2017
Sue continues to test apps, one of them is NaturalReader which she wrote about in the previous page (Jabbering) – that’s what the “whoopsie” is about. She talks about e-books and sources of them as well as about biking and investing – another mixed bag!
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Categories: Financial, Future, Low Vision Aid, Research, Sue’s Musings, Technology: Phone/Tablet/Computer
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Keywords: BARD, biking, DRM, eBooks, Gutenberg Project, iBooks, investing, NaturalReader, Nook, overdrive, research
Do you have any suggestions for other categories or keywords? Let me know in a comment here or send me an email at light2sight5153@gmail.com.
Sue’s New Page 7/29/2017
Sue talks about several different topics and tells us that “Low vision does not have to mean no fun!” Catch up on her latest antics. Plus, she finally was able to try the cardboard goggles I sent her with her new smartphone with the app Nearsighted VR. It did not work well for her, unfortunately. She shares why it didn’t plus gives us the scoop on a great free service & a great new app.
- Categories: Low Vision Aid, Sue’s Musings, Symptoms, Technology: Android, Technology: Phone/Tablet/Computer
- Keywords: BookBub, cardboard goggles, e-books, Natural Reader, NaturalReader, Near Sighted app
Do you have any suggestions for other categories or keywords? Let me know in a comment here or send me an email at light2sight5153@gmail.com.
Sue’s New Page 7/28/2017
We’ve already talked about preconceived notions. Here’s another one. Have you been wearing eyeglasses & had someone question you about them, wondered why the lenses weren’t bottom-of-soda-bottle thick? Depending on how your vision has been affected by AMD, getting your refractive errors fixed can help. But the bottom line is that we are not all like…
- Categories: Low Vision Aid, Non-AMD Eye Problems, Sue’s Musings
- Keywords: astigmatism, hyperopia, myopia, prisms, refractive errors
Do you have any suggestions for other categories or keywords? Let me know in a comment here or send me an email at light2sight5153@gmail.com.
Sue’s New Post 7/27/2017
If you’ve been reading Sue’s pages (and you should be ::smile::), you know that Sue is very physically active including hiking & biking in her area. She’s not the only one with visual impairments to do so and she shares stories of several others who…
- Categories: Personal Stories, Sue’s Musings, Tips for living with low vision
- Keywords: Appalachian Trail, bike, biking, Bill Irwin, Blind Courage, Canada, hike, rail, rails to trails, The Great Trail, trail, Trevor Thomas
Do you have any suggestions for other categories or keywords? Let me know in a comment here or send me an email at light2sight5153@gmail.com.
Sue’s New Page 7/26/2017
Many of you are working and hope to continue doing so for as long as possible. Sue writes about some things that can happen when vision loss changes the dynamics of…
- Categories: Sue’s Musings
- Keywords: career, contribute, job, work
Do you have any suggestions for other categories or keywords? Let me know in a comment here or send me an email at light2sight5153@gmail.com.
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