Category: Sue’s New Page

Vision Loss: The Early Pages 5/13/2017

We are going to be re-publishing Sue’s early pages as a way to help new members get a start with reading them and to encourage those of you who haven’t read them for some time to take another look.

Title & date first published

  • 1.  In The Beginning  February 25, 2016
    • Categories: Diagnosis, Risk Factors, Symptoms, Dry AMD
    • Keywords: diagnosis, dry AMD, dry macular degeneration, symptoms
  • 2.  The Science Stuff February 25, 2016
    • Categories: The Science Stuff, Dry AMD
    • Keywords: science, dry AMD, dry macular degeneration, Bruch’s membrane, cones, rods, RPEs, retina, retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), photoreceptors, macula, choroid

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

 

Sue’s New Page 5/13/2017

Have you found yourself thinking things like “I should have taken better care of my eyes” or “I should be independent”?  Sue talks about guilt in terms of justified vs. unjustified emotions in DBT terms.

Should On You!

  • Categories: Cognitive Therapy, Sue’s Musings, Tips for Living with Low Vision
  • Keywords: DBT, justified vs. unjustified emotions, guilt

Sue’s New Page 5/12/2017

Sue is always looking for services to help those with low vision or who are blind.  She shares information for US veterans. There’s also information about a similar group in the UK.

Thank You For Your Service

  • Categories: Financial, Tips for Living with Low Vision
  • Keywords: Aid and Assistance, Blind Veterans UK, VA Blindness Rehabilitation Center, VA Office of Blind Rehabilitation Services, veteran, Veterans Administation, Veterans of Foreign Wars

Sue’s New Page 5/8/2017

You may have heard the phrase ‘oxidative stress’ as a cause of macular degeneration.  What is it?  Sue’s chemistry background is limited but she cobbles together an explanation of how atoms and electrons and antioxidants could possibly interact.

Electron Rustlers

  • Categories: The Science Stuff, Nutrition, Sue’s Musings
  • Keywords: Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, oxidative stress, antioxidants

Sue’s New Page 5/7/2017

Sue wrote this page just short of a year from the time she started to work with Pennsylvania’s Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR).  She previously wrote about the devices she uses on a normal day when she’s not at work (there is a link to that page in this one).  This is what she uses in a typical day at work.

A Day in the Life: Work Day

  • Categories: Low Vision Aid, Technology: Apple, Technology: phone/tablet/computer, Tips for Living with Low Vision
  • Keywords: OttLite, Ott Lite, lighting, CCTV, Zoom Text, Justand, handheld reader, telescopic glasses, iPad

Sue’s New Page 5/6/2017

You may have heard the saying “Denial is not just a river in Egypt” (and variations of it).  Sue talks about denial from a psychological perspective.  Are there other defense mechanisms that are more effective?

Queen of Denial & Her Friends

  • Categories: Cognitive Therapy, Tips for Living with Low Vision
  • Keywords: denial, defense mechanisms, coping, coping with low vision, coping with macular degeneration

Sue’s New Page 5/5/2017

As a school psychologist, Sue works with kids with challenges and she tells us how they react to HER challenges! She also updates us on aspects of the stem cell clinical trial she is waiting for and reminds us what RPE stem cells can and cannot do.

Kids and Zombies

  • Categories: Research, Sue’s Musings
  • Keywords: Astrellas, photoreceptor, RPE, stem cells, dry AMD, geographic atrophy