JustaSCOUNDREL
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A few years ago I was diagnosed with early onset AMD. It usually affects people with high diopter corrective near sightedness. What my Retinologist, an eye doc. who specializes on only the retina) calls egg shaped eyes. The retina is the part of the eye where the light is turned into nerve impulses that the brain turns it into vision.
Basically AMD is the blood vessels grow between the under body and the retina. They raise the retina and break the nerves that transmit to the brain essentially making that place in the eye unable to see. It can progress enough to make a person blind in both eyes.
When I was first diagnosed the only fix for the “WET” AMD was to laser the eye. That is what they did to my right eye. It fixed the progression but left me with 10-15% of my prior vision. My left eye had some vision loss from “Dry” AMD. Dry is different than the wet type but can become wet in some percentage of cases. That is what has happened to me. My dry recently was diagnosed as having become the wet type.
Now there is a very effective treatment with a 90% success rate and a 40% chance of improved vision. I’m receiving that treatment now. The treatment consists of a monthly injection directly into the eye over a three month period.
Understand I’m not whining, life is what it is and I’ll deal with it just fine. If you have a high diopter near sighted and in your late 40s II strongly recommend you see your Ophthalmologist for an evaluation.
Since ther are so many of us older folks here on Lit. and I’n sure most have experienced the decrease of vision that comes with aging.
With my poor vision it has become increasingly difficult to read things on my PC. Even Lit. has become hard for me to read to the point I seldom read stories here anymore.
Two days ago my wife sent me a link to a FREE app. That allows the vision impaired to read news articles without the side bars and extraneous junk and or to change the font or size to better enhance your reading experience. I used the white letters on a black background to read a full 5 Lit. page story today with no problem.
This is not spam. The app. Is free and I have no interest in who ever the company is.
http://evernote.com/clearly/
If I’ve violated some rules and the link is removed PM me and I’ll send you the link.
Mike
Basically AMD is the blood vessels grow between the under body and the retina. They raise the retina and break the nerves that transmit to the brain essentially making that place in the eye unable to see. It can progress enough to make a person blind in both eyes.
When I was first diagnosed the only fix for the “WET” AMD was to laser the eye. That is what they did to my right eye. It fixed the progression but left me with 10-15% of my prior vision. My left eye had some vision loss from “Dry” AMD. Dry is different than the wet type but can become wet in some percentage of cases. That is what has happened to me. My dry recently was diagnosed as having become the wet type.
Now there is a very effective treatment with a 90% success rate and a 40% chance of improved vision. I’m receiving that treatment now. The treatment consists of a monthly injection directly into the eye over a three month period.
Understand I’m not whining, life is what it is and I’ll deal with it just fine. If you have a high diopter near sighted and in your late 40s II strongly recommend you see your Ophthalmologist for an evaluation.
Since ther are so many of us older folks here on Lit. and I’n sure most have experienced the decrease of vision that comes with aging.
With my poor vision it has become increasingly difficult to read things on my PC. Even Lit. has become hard for me to read to the point I seldom read stories here anymore.
Two days ago my wife sent me a link to a FREE app. That allows the vision impaired to read news articles without the side bars and extraneous junk and or to change the font or size to better enhance your reading experience. I used the white letters on a black background to read a full 5 Lit. page story today with no problem.
This is not spam. The app. Is free and I have no interest in who ever the company is.
http://evernote.com/clearly/
If I’ve violated some rules and the link is removed PM me and I’ll send you the link.
Mike
