Category: Sue’s New Page

Sue enjoys Winter.  She likes to downhill and cross-country ski.  For those of us who don’t share her enthusiasm, she offers some tips to keep us warm and safe if we’re headed for another…

Real Winter

Spoiler Alert – why should you read Sue’s Journal Pages?

After a year of learning how to deal with her visual impairment both physically and emotionally, Sue has a rather ‘normal for her’ life: At age 64 and with advanced AMD geographic atrophy, she works several jobs, attends regular exercise classes, rides her bike safely, travels, walks her dog, kayaks, attends social events with her friends.   We are not suggesting that reading her journal will ensure you the same results but we hope that Sue’s Journal of Her Journey will be educational and inspirational.

We’ve compiled the first part of a series of Sue’s Best Pages.  If you don’t think you are ready to tackle all 500 of them, here’s our suggestion of where to start.

Sue’s Best Pages: Part 1

If you have read the books or are watching the TV series Game of Thrones, you know the phrase ‘Winter is Coming’.  I’m ‘borrowing’ the phrase for some pages that Sue wrote in March of this year but I didn’t publish them then (long story).  For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it is indeed true that Winter is Coming.

There are well-meaning people who offer suggestions that they think will solve our problems.  One of Sue’s friends told her that there were glasses out there that would enable her to drive again.  Not true, unfortunately.  So what about these…

Funny Glasses

Spoiler Alert – why should you read Sue’s Journal Pages?

After a year of learning how to deal with her visual impairment both physically and emotionally, Sue has a rather ‘normal for her’ life: At age 64 and with advanced AMD geographic atrophy, she works several jobs, attends regular exercise classes, rides her bike safely, travels, walks her dog, kayaks, attends social events with her friends.   We are not suggesting that reading her journal will ensure you the same results but we hope that Sue’s Journal of Her Journey will be educational and inspirational.

We’ve compiled the first part of a series of Sue’s Best Pages.  If you don’t think you are ready to tackle all 500 of them, here’s our suggestion of where to start.

Sue’s Best Pages: Part 1

It’s been almost 2-1/2 years since the vision in Sue’s first eye started to decline.  She has discussed her AMD with family members several times since then and yet, at a recent family gathering, she got the “you don’t look/act blind”.  She wonders how many more times she has to subject her nephews to the…

AMD 101 Lecture

Spoiler Alert – why should you read Sue’s Journal Pages?

After a year of learning how to deal with her visual impairment both physically and emotionally, Sue has a rather ‘normal for her’ life: At age 64 and with advanced AMD geographic atrophy, she works several jobs, attends regular exercise classes, rides her bike safely, travels, walks her dog, kayaks, attends social events with her friends.   We are not suggesting that reading her journal will ensure you the same results but we hope that Sue’s Journal of Her Journey will be educational and inspirational.

We’ve compiled the first part of a series of Sue’s Best Pages.  If you don’t think you are ready to tackle all 500 of them, here’s our suggestion of where to start.

Sue’s Best Pages: Part 1

Sue’s adventure with 2 puppies continues.  She reports from…

The Puppy Zone

Spoiler Alert – why should you read Sue’s Journal Pages?

After a year of learning how to deal with her visual impairment both physically and emotionally, Sue has a rather ‘normal for her’ life: At age 64 and with advanced AMD geographic atrophy, she works several jobs, attends regular exercise classes, rides her bike safely, travels, walks her dog, kayaks, attends social events with her friends.   We are not suggesting that reading her journal will ensure you the same results but we hope that Sue’s Journal of Her Journey will be educational and inspirational.

We’ve compiled the first part of a series of Sue’s Best Pages.  If you don’t think you are ready to tackle all 500 of them, here’s our suggestion of where to start.

Sue’s Best Pages: Part 1

I asked Sue to try the free Apple app Seeing AI which caused quite a bit of excitement when it was released.  It uses the phone’s camera to allow you to identify the world around you, including identifying products, currency and people plus providing text-to-speech capabilities.  She found its scene identification feature (still being tested by the developers) to be good  but not always – it told her that her husband’s shoes were…

A Cat Eating a Shoe

Spoiler Alert – why should you read Sue’s Journal Pages?

After a year of learning how to deal with her visual impairment both physically and emotionally, Sue has a rather ‘normal for her’ life: At age 64 and with advanced AMD geographic atrophy, she works several jobs, attends regular exercise classes, rides her bike safely, travels, walks her dog, kayaks, attends social events with her friends.   We are not suggesting that reading her journal will ensure you the same results but we hope that Sue’s Journal of Her Journey will be educational and inspirational.

We’ve compiled the first part of a series of Sue’s Best Pages.  If you don’t think you are ready to tackle all 500 of them, here’s our suggestion of where to start.

Sue’s Best Pages: Part 1

Sue’s ‘Lost’ Pages are ones that for various reasons never got published, they slipped between the cracks.

The child of a friend of Sue’s has a malformation of the optic nerve. They don’t yet know what she sees since she is still young.  She’s a handful now which Sue attributes to ego strength, something that will be helping this child in…

Taking the World by Storm

Spoiler Alert – why should you read Sue’s Journal Pages?

After a year of learning how to deal with her visual impairment both physically and emotionally, Sue has a rather ‘normal for her’ life: At age 64 and with advanced AMD geographic atrophy, she works several jobs, attends regular exercise classes, rides her bike safely, travels, walks her dog, kayaks, attends social events with her friends.   We are not suggesting that reading her journal will ensure you the same results but we hope that Sue’s Journal of Her Journey will be educational and inspirational.

We’ve compiled the first part of a series of Sue’s Best Pages.  If you don’t think you are ready to tackle all 500 of them, here’s our suggestion of where to start.

Sue’s Best Pages: Part 1

I’m reposing this from December 2016.

The countdown to Christmas is in full swing.  It can be a happy time but it can come with issues.  Sue writes “Surviving the holidays can be rough for anyone but it can be harder for us folks with ‘challenges’. ”  Through it all we should…

Accentuate the Positive

Spoiler Alert – why should you read Sue’s Journal Pages?

After a year of learning how to deal with her visual impairment both physically and emotionally, Sue has a rather ‘normal for her’ life: At age 64 and with advanced AMD geographic atrophy, she works several jobs, attends regular exercise classes, rides her bike safely, travels, walks her dog, kayaks, attends social events with her friends.   We are not suggesting that reading her journal will ensure you the same results but we hope that Sue’s Journal of Her Journey will be educational and inspirational.

We’ve compiled the first part of a series of Sue’s Best Pages.  If you don’t think you are ready to tackle all 500 of them, here’s our suggestion of where to start.

Sue’s Best Pages: Part 1

 

I’m reposting this from 11/20/2016.

This Thursday in the US is Thanksgiving Day which many people consider to be the beginning of the holiday season. For some people, the holidays are not times of joy and happiness.  Sue talks about some of the myths that may behind some of the reasons and she offers some ideas to combat…

The Holiday Blues

People with vision impairment have a particular set of challenges but there are also ‘normal’, mundane problems that aren’t related.  Those of you who have been following Sue’s journey know that not long ago Sue’s furkid Beastie Baby/Lily passed away.   Sue is now facing the ‘normal’ challenges of becoming a puppy mother because this past weekend, she got not 1 but 2…

New Puppies!

Start at the beginning…

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 post-vacation days have included  a bout of a stomach bug and tons of work.   She had  a client with a physical impairment and told them “We each play the cards we are dealt. They may not be a winning hand, but if we play that hand with skill, we can still win in our own way. ”

Play the Cards We Are Dealt

Start at the beginning…

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”.