Author: Linda Moore

It occurred to me that some of you don’t remember when we did NOT have microwaves! They were invented in the 1940s but not affordable till the 1970s.  Before that, there were ‘TV dinners’, the first of which – the Swanson TV dinner – was advertised in 1955: “In 25 minutes, your wife could make a meal with ‘hearty slices of moist tender Swanson turkey, with whipped sweet potatoes and golden Swanson butter.’ The original TV dinner also included ‘garden fresh’ peas and a cornbread dressing.”   We have come a long way!  If you have problems putting together a ‘real’ meal, modern microwave dinners are an option as are meals from programs like Meals on Wheels in the US.  Good thing because Sue is…

Domestic Goddess – Not!

• Categories: Nutrition, Sue’s Musings, Tips for living with low vision
• Keywords: cooking, Meals at Home, Meals on Wheels, frozen dinners, frozen meals

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I proposed this topic to Sue because of an article I shared with the Facebook group Re-thinking Antioxidant Supplementation for Macular Degeneration which presents criticism of the AREDS research.  Considering that many doctors recommend the supplements from that research as if they were a ‘treatment’, how do we as patients deal with the conflicting information that we find? As several of the Facebook group members pointed out, it’s not only in this field that we are faced with this (is fat OK or not OK, is coffee OK or not OK, etc).  How do we deal with it?  The question becomes: is there any way of…

Overcoming Uncertainty

• Category: Cognitive Therapy, Future, Research, Sue’s Musings, Treatment
• Keywords: DBT, limbic system, research, treatment, uncertainty

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We continue to talk about scotomas/blind spots in terms of Sue’s geographic atrophy.  Do you know where the term came from, what the word ‘geographic’ means? In seas of healthy tissue, there are…

Islands of Damage

• Category: Dry AMD, Sue’s Musings, Symptoms, The Science Stuff
• Keyword: Amsler Grid, choroid, depigmentation, eccentric viewing, fovea, geographic atrophy, lesions, pigment, scotoma, scotomata

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My earlier post had an incorrect link to The Blind Spot – Part 1.  It is corrected below.  I guess I should had a 3rd cup of coffee this morning ::grin::

In our Facebook group, we’ve been discussing the presence of blind spots call scotomas that can occur with AMD.  They are most common with advanced dry AMD called geographic atrophy but can occur with wet AMD as well.

The Blind Spot – Part 1

and

The Blind Spot – Part 2

• Categories: Sue’s Musings, Symptoms, The Science Stuff
• Keywords: absolute scotoma, bilateral scotoma, blind spot, central scotoma, eccentric viewing, hemianopic scotoma, optic chiasm, paracentral scotoma, peripheral scotoma, photoreceptors, scotoma, scotomata

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In our Facebook group, we’ve been discussing the presence of blind spots call scotomas that can occur with AMD.  They are most common with advanced dry AMD called geographic atrophy but can occur with wet AMD as well.

The Blind Spot – Part 1

and

The Blind Spot – Part 2

• Categories: Sue’s Musings, Symptoms, The Science Stuff
• Keywords: absolute scotoma, bilateral scotoma, blind spot, central scotoma, eccentric viewing, hemianopic scotoma, optic chiasm, paracentral scotoma, peripheral scotoma, photoreceptors, scotoma, scotomata

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.