Category: Sue’s New Page

When Sue wrote this, it was a little over a year after her vision changed such that she had to take a break from doing some of the things she loved to do.  It was hard to give up some of her freedoms but she was able to get most of them back. She talks about one of them on a…

Beautiful Day for a Bike Ride

Sue loves quotes, here’s one of her favorites from Victor Frankl: “The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity – under even the most difficult circumstances to add a deeper meaning to his life.”

Meaning and Purpose

One of our readers who is a member of our Facebook group shared her preparation for and experience of driving after not driving for 3 years because of the visual problems from her AMD.   She agreed to let us include what she told us in a series of pages.

The 3 pages are linked together so you can start here and continue to pages 2 and 3:

Behind the Wheel: Part 1

Here are the links to pages 2 & 3:

Behind the Wheel: Part 2

Behind the Wheel: Part 3

If you have any comments, please share them here or come to our Facebook group for our discussion.

Do you know what the rods and cones are in our eyes?  What do they do that is so important? What does that have to do with stem cell research?  Find out and learn why the eye would be an…

Electrician’s Nightmare

We know Sue is hard on parts. What did she do THIS time?  It’s a…

Cautionary Tale

Do you have high blood pressure?  Do you take medications for it?  High blood pressure has been linked to AMD especially to the wet form.  Unfortunately, some types of medications – beta blockers – for blood pressure can increase one’s risk for wet AMD.  Read about what that means in terms of…

Preventative Maintenance

Have you heard the phrase “if it sounds too good to be true it probably is”?  Unfortunately, there are individuals and companies who want to take your money.  How do you spot a fraud?  Sue gives us some guidelines.

Quack, Quack

When people offer to help you, do you feel that they pity you or sympathize with you?  Is there a difference?  Sue tells why we should…

Let People Help You

The website for the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) says that it “is the largest and most respected eye and vision research organization in the world. Our members include nearly 12,000 researchers from over 75 countries”.  Sue shares information from presentations related to retinal issues at past conferences.

Serious Work

Too Much of a Good Thing

We are always looking for people to write for us.  If you are interested, let us know at light2sight5153@gmail.com.  I’ll be happy to help with the editing and I’ll put your words on the website.

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…

Your Fuzzy Spot

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…

Putzing Around

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?

Fair and Impartial

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…

Love Wikipedia

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…

Why NOT Me?

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…

C for Contribute

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…

A Compromise for Today

• 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.