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Last week, I went with a friend of mine to dinner at The Cheesecake Factory, which happens to be one of my favorite restaurants. We got there late – about 8pm or so – and the place was packed and noisy. More to the point, though, the place was dark. Dark not only from the […]

I should really be wearing glasses. And yet, I don’t. I used to wear them. From the time I was very little to the time I left elementary school, I wore glasses every day of my life. Then I became a self-conscious, pubescent monster as I entered junior high, at which point I refused to […]

So much focus is given to the different symptoms of macular disease and how it affects one’s vision, but less on how a diagnosis of a chronic retinal condition affects one’s emotions and emotional well being. The day one is diagnosed with AMD or any chronic eye condition is a day that is not forgotten. […]

Many people with macular degeneration or other forms of low vision have someone who is considered their main caregiver – it may be a wife or husband, an adult child or other family member or close friend. My mother-in-law is the main caregiver of my father-in-law who has wet macular degeneration. They are both in […]

When I was in high school, I once said to my mentor that if I could go back and do my life over again, I wouldn’t change a thing. To this day, my former mentor is still blown away by that statement. But it’s really true; I wouldn’t change a thing. I wouldn’t go back to being “normal”. The fact that […]