Category: Sue’s New Page

Sue’s New Page 6/7/2017

Sue sees her retinologist regularly unless she has a change that she’s concerned about in which case she sees him more often.  Her geographic atrophy (advanced AMD) is bad enough that she wonders if the good thought is that maybe her vision loss has stopped.  But then there’s the bad thought.

Good Thought, Bad Thought

  • Categories: Dry AMD, Testing, The Science Stuff
  • Keywords: central vision loss, choroid, dry AMD, eccentric viewing, geographic atrophy, photoreceptor, retinologist, RPEs, tomography, wet AMD

Vision Loss: The Early Pages 6/6/2017

Title & date first published

  • 29.  Yesterday March 27, 2016
    • Categories: Cognitive Therapy, Self care, Sue’s Musings
    • Keywords: ACCEPTS, comparison, contributing, DBT, pity

Do you have suggestions for keywords? Please let me know here or send me an email at light2sight5153@gmail.com.

Sue’s New Page 6/5/2017

One of our readers asked a question about where to get the telescopic glasses that Sue uses to watch TV & do similar tasks.  In tracking down the MaxTV glasses by Eschenbach, Sue found a pair that was quite a bit cheaper so she ordered them. This is her review of them and some information about several text-to-speech readers.

Comparison Shopping

  • Categories: Low Vision Aid, Sue’s Musings, Technology, Tips for living with low vision
  • Keywords: assistive technology, Dan Roberts, Daniel Roberts, Enhanced Vision, Eschenbach, KNFB reader, Living Well with Low Vision, Max TV, MaxTV, telescopic glasses, telescopic lenses

Vision Loss: The Early Pages 6/4/2017

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  • 27.  Toy Story, Too March 26, 2016
    • Categories: Diagnosis: Newly Diagnosed, Eschenbach, Financial, Low Vision Aid, Technology: Phone/Tablet/Computer
    • Keywords: Financial, handheld magnifier, Low Vision Aid, Technology: Phone/Tablet/Computer
  • 28.  Taxman March 26, 2016
    • Categories: Diagnosis: Newly Diagnosed, Financial, Video
    • Keywords: deductions, disabled taxpayers, federal tax, free tax preparation, IRS, macular degeneration tax breaks, tax breaks for visually impaired

Do you have suggestions for keywords? Please let me know here or send me an email at light2sight5153@gmail.com.

Sue’s New Page 6/3/2017

This is the final page in Sue’s response to a follower who brought up the subject of what happens to communication when a visually impaired person cannot see nonverbal cues.  Can we learn to recognize emotional content by listening to a person’s voice?

Improving Communications: Part 3 

  • Categories: Research, Self care, Sue’s Musings, Tips for living with low vision
  • Keywords: communication, communication styles, disability, language therapist, loneliness, nonverbal communication, nonverbal cues, social isolation, speech therapist, Thomas Pocklington Trust

Sue’s New Page 6/1/2017

Sue continues to write about communication when visual impairment reduces the ability to interpret visual cues.  Who is responsible for ‘fixing’ it when there are problems?

Improving Communication: Part 2

  • Categories: Sue’s Musings, Tips for living with low vision
  • Keywords: Adult UK sight loss pathway, communication repair strategy, communication skills, Eye Clinic Liaison Officers, language therapist, nonverbal communication, social isolation, speech therapist, support groups, UK Vision Strategy, visual cues

Vision Loss: The Early Pages 6/2/2017

Title & date first published

  • 25.  Soothe Thyself  March 25, 2016
    • Categories: Cognitive Therapy, Diagnosis: Newly Diagnosed, Sue’s Musings
    • Keywords: 5 senses, DBT, five senses, self-soothing, stress
  • 26.   Toy Story March 25, 2016
    • Categories: Diagnosis: Newly Diagnosed, Low Vision Aid
    • Keywords: Blind and Visual Services, BVS, CCTV, Eschenbach, Low Vision International, magnifier, magnifyer, Magnilink

Do you have suggestions for keywords? Please let me know here or send me an email at light2sight5153@gmail.com.

Sue’s New Page 5/30/2017

We are always happy to receive questions from our email followers and Facebook group members.  Sue has written 3 pages about a recent observation/question about how isolating it can be to not be able to pick up on social cues because of visual impairment.  Here’s the first page…

Improving Communication: Part 1

  • Categories: Depression, Self care, Self Help, Sue’s Musings, Technology: Phone/Tablet/Computer, Tips for living with low vision
  • Keywords: aging, assistive devices, assistive technology, depression, facial recognition, loneliness, recognizing faces, social isolation