Archive for the ‘Senior vision’ Category

What makes strabismus worse?

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Recently I shared a letter from Donna regarding helping her mom with strabismus. Donna writes: My mom has devoted her life to raising her children and grandchildren and volunteering. Her first response to any news of crisis is, "What can I do to help?" When I told her a support ...

Coping strategies for senior citizens with strabismus

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

[The following letter from Donna was recently written on a strabismus support group, and is used here with permission from Donna.] My mother is 70 years young and had surgery for strabismus at age 18. She has had double vision that can no longer be corrected by prisms (she already has ...

Thanksgiving: Seeing beyond the brick wall

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

For those of us with vision difficulties, it is wonderful to know that Thanksgiving is not dependent upon vision. Thanksgiving is vision. The story is told of an elderly man whose bed was by a window. The man's bedridden roommate never tired of hearing him talk about the lovely ...

Strabismus help for those who are older

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

I often hear people say they've been told there is no help for them since they have passed a certain age. The October 2004 issue of JAAPOS (Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus) reports on a study of 59 adults aged 16 to 80 who had potential for ...

Is this all in my mind?

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

Oh, man, I'm not going to make it! How often those words came to my mind during 2004. I'd try to relax and read a magazine, or work on my websites, and I just couldn't stick with it. I went from one project to another. I don't know ...

Helping you cope...

Our vision is to get the best we can from what we have to work with, and to do the best we can with what we get! More....

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