It’s a new year. How optimistic are you that 2018 is going to be a year when there will be great strides in our understanding of how the eyes work and knowledge of what can be done when they don’t work properly? Sue writes “So, optimistic about 2018? Oh, yeah. You just gotta believe. Every small step is progress. Once again: this is the best time in history to be going blind.” Read why she is…
Coming soon…A new Guest Author page with the highlights of an Award Lecture from December 2017: “Macular Degeneration Epidemiology: Nature-Nurture, Lifestyle Factors, Genetic Risk, and Gene-Environment Interactions – The Weisenfeld Award 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.