Our Guest Authors: Their Stories

Facebook Pages & Groups & Blogs by members of our Facebook group.

We have a growing list of Facebook group member-created and member-maintained blogs, Facebook pages and groups. If you have one you’d like added to the list, please let me know.

• Myopic Macular Degeneration: Understanding the Basics, blog post by Frank Chen of Clearsightcorner.com which is a valuable resource for patients and patient caregivers, aimed at bridging the gap between research and patient health literacy. The website provides evidence-based healthcare resources, including articles, podcasts, and videos, that are translated into easy to using everyday terms to better inform people about ocular conditions like macular degeneration and myopia.
• Nutrition for Age-Related Macular Degeneration run by Hannah Nunn, a UK Nutritional Therapist who specializes in AMD. https://www.facebook.com/groups/528832935440365/permalink/529826885340970
• Blindsided
  blog by Chrissie Whitfield
  Chrissie also runs a support group in New Zealand. The Facebook group ‘Blindsided NZ macular degeneration and vision loss support group’ is http://facebook.com/groups/336512223728384
• UK Macular Degeneration friendship group
  run by Monica Trinder
  closed group
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/589067591220411/
• Amazon – Echo, Dot, Alexa & Skills for Blind & Partially Sighted
  run by Richard A M Shuker
  closed group
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/1985694968359228
• The Brighter Side
  run by Susan Dickerson Scott “My hope, to continually share products, services and tips that will offer a better quality of life for those affected by AMD and low-vision.” Now called ‘Macular Matters. UK friendship group for MD.’
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/589067591220411
• Blog: It’s Just Not So Clearby Matt Gwinn
  Matt’s walk through macular degeneration
  https://itsjustnotsoclear.wordpress.com/

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  Pages

  2022 The Wide Blue Yonder by Simon Mahoney

• The Wide Blue Yonder

2019 Our Cub Reporter: Notes from an Awareness Program by Joann Davis

• 2019 Our Cub Reporter: Notes from an Awareness Program (2 pages)

2018 Our Cub Reporter: Notes from an Awareness Program by Joann Davis

• 2018 Our Cub Reporter: Notes from an Awareness Program (4 pages)

Surprise and Hope by Cliff Tiedemann

• Surprise and Hope
  

  Impossible Dream? by Bob O’Connell

  • Impossible Dream? (2 pages)

  Always a Silver Lining by Vickie Hoecherl

  • Always a Silver Lining (1 page)

  Rookie in Training by Joann Davis

  • Rookie in Training (2 pages)

  Tales from the Wet Side by Jennifer Poole

  • Tales from the Wet Side (5 pages)

  MYopia, My Journey by Andrea Junge

  • MYopia, My Journey (4 pages)

  My Journey with Early AMD by Nancy Alberts

  • My Journey with Early AMD (1 page)

  Happy 1st Birthday, Website!  by Sharon Hynes

  • Happy 1st Birthday, Website, Feb. 25th, 2017 (1 page)

  The Other Shoe by Cathy Meggs

  • The Other Shoe, My Journey (4 pages)

  Too Much of a Good Thing by Cora Lyn Sears

  • Too Much of a Good Thing (1 page)

  Behind the Wheel based on comments by Yvonne

  • Behind the Wheel (3 pages)

  Rick’s Story, Macular Pucker

  • Part 1 (2 pages)

   Lara

  • Lara, Beauty for the Blind (1 page)