Posts, articles and links to address and help you answer any questions about personal, home, and social life with vision loss.
Speaking into the Void
Speaking into the Void When you lose sight, you lose a big part of ordinary conversation. This is hard to recognize when your loss is new. There is so much confusion and change: But there’s a void in ordinary communication. Talking seems weirdly hollowed out! Of course it’s due to […]
Read more "Speaking into the Void"Interview with Sabrina Bolus, Lighthouse for the Blind San Francisco
I have always hoped that my book, When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes: Vision Loss and Personal Recovery would be used as a teaching text for people losing their sight. Now it’s happening at the Lighthouse for the Blind in San Francisco! Here is an interview with Sabrina Bolus, the Adult Programs Specialist who directs their “Vision” […]
Read more "Interview with Sabrina Bolus, Lighthouse for the Blind San Francisco"Have You Tried the New AI feature on “Be My Eyes”? It’s Fun!
Be My A Eye uses AI (Artificial Intelligence) to announce what is on a countertop, desk, or patio in wonderfully full detail, but it makes mistakes! Here’s a photo of my deck and here’s the description “The picture shows a cozy outdoor deck area of a house. The house has a cream-colored siding with […]
Read more "Have You Tried the New AI feature on “Be My Eyes”? It’s Fun!"Fall Reading: Creative adjustment to Vision Loss, Memoirs and More, Updated
Now the pandemic is mostly in the past I am updating and re-posting a few posts with good information that you may have missed . Reading how other people have battled to regain skills and confidence after losing a lot of sight can be really comforting and helpful. So can guides to living with blindness […]
Read more "Fall Reading: Creative adjustment to Vision Loss, Memoirs and More, Updated"CBS, Charles Bonnet Syndrome: Freaky But Often Goes Away
“When you see well, your brain is processing thousands of images a day, including those seen for only a split second. So when damage occurs to your vision, the brain can get creative and keep on generating images—filling in the poor quality ones coming from the eye. This is worrying! Some people fear that dementia […]
Read more "CBS, Charles Bonnet Syndrome: Freaky But Often Goes Away"My Heart Is Not Blind Podcast: Conversations with People Who Live with Blindness
My Heart is Not Blind: On Blindness and Perception by Michael Nye was published in 2019. It contains 45 in-depth conversations with people who live with low vision or blindness. The interviews are full of revelations about the many ways blind people use perception. They are about to be launched in a weekly podcast. Here […]
Read more "My Heart Is Not Blind Podcast: Conversations with People Who Live with Blindness"Managing Social Gatherings with Vision Loss This Festive Season, Hadley Presents
When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes: Vision Loss and Personal Recovery Featured on the Hadley Presents Podcast. Going to a gathering over the next month is supposed to be a celebration of the season! But with vision loss gatherings may be no fun at all! You need strategies for success because socializing depends so much […]
Read more "Managing Social Gatherings with Vision Loss This Festive Season, Hadley Presents"Accessible Cellphones with Keypads Repost with more details on VisionAware
Repost of Accessible Cellphones with Keypads My blogpost from October has been reposted on VisionAware, the major site for adults 55 and older losing vision. More useful details plus another phone choice have been added by Pris Rogers of the American Foundation for the Blind, which hosts VisionAware
Read more "Accessible Cellphones with Keypads Repost with more details on VisionAware"AMD, Adult-Onset Macular Degeneration – My Story
I have been treated for macular degeneration for 14 years. In 2007, I went to get my reading glasses checked. I had no complaints. On examining me, the doctor spotted macular degeneration and made an appointment for me to see an ophthalmologist who treated AMD. I had wet AMD in my left eye (liquid seeping […]
Read more "AMD, Adult-Onset Macular Degeneration – My Story"VIDEO ABOUT WHEN YOU CAN’T BELIEVE YOUR EYES: PART 3
This video describes Part 3 of my book: When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes: Vision Loss and Personal Recovery. The 5 parts of the book follow the phases of shock, grief and gradual adjustment that people often go through after vision loss. This book is a resource and guide for people losing sight, their families, […]
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