Peggy
R. Wolfe has lived
since 1999 with macular degeneration, offers reassurance, hope,
and invaluable insight on living well with macular disease and
declining vision. With strong endorsements from the medical community,
this handy reference is filled with personal stories illustrating
the author’s own challenges and adaptive strategies. It also
includes hundreds of constructive, easy-to-follow techniques
on everything from performing everyday tasks to selecting assistive
tools and technology to maintaining an optimistic, fighting spirit.
Printed on glare-resistant paper in large-print
format, Macular Disease: Practical
Strategies for Living with Vision Loss is an authoritative,
empathetic, personable guide. It will help readers to meet each
day’s challenges and sustaining a positive, realistic, “can do”
attitude in the face of vision loss as new ways of living well
are developed and mastered. Do you
Topics Include—
• Finding
hard-to-spot items
• Learning new ways to perform everyday tasks
• Strengthening other senses
• Deciding when—and when not—to seek or accept help
• Sharing feelings with friends, family members, and others
• Selecting helpful products
• Preparing for the future
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Endorsements
Robert C. Ramsay, MD
“Ophthalmologists struggle with trying to assist patients and families
as they adapt to untreatable and permanent visual impairment, and the ophthalmic
community is always looking for new and better ways to assist our patients.
There is no question that this book represents a large step forward in providing
appropriate information. The text is well organized, sharp and the photographs
superb, all of which are necessary for the visual impaired population. This
is a superb book that should help thousands of patients.”
Dorothy J. Horns, MD
“The book is informative, well-written,
and practical. A lot of research, thought, and effort has gone
into this book, and the result is excellent.”
Reader Marquita O’Connor, St. Paul, Minnesota
A brilliant book not to be missed by anyone
with low vision and their caregivers
From the moment I opened this book, I knew
I was in good hands. To my delight, I could read it! The size and
blackness of the print, the paper quality, the careful spacing
of words, lines, and margins—all contribute to its readability
for me, a person with low vision. The chapter on improving reading
ability intrigued me first, in that it is personally my biggest
challenge at present. It was so helpful that I decided to read
the book from cover to cover.
Helpful hints for daily living about everything
from cooking to personal grooming to aid in writing a check abound
on each page. While the chapter entitled “Making Driving Decisions”
would have been even more helpful while I was still able to drive,
the suggestions for what to do after “giving up the keys” stimulated
me. In each chapter the paragraph called “My Story” gives a personal
sense. Particularly touching is the story about situations surrounding
the death of the author’s husband, entitled “One Day Too Late.”
Even though my vision deterioration results
from a rare condition affecting the macula, pathological myopia,
rather than the more common macular degeneration, the strategies
for dealing with vision challenges definitely apply to me. Now
the book has become a reference manual for me, aided by the excellent
index and appendix. Finally, the book encourages me to become a
creative problem solver as I meet new challenges.
From
the author
This book was written in real time as I
continued to adjust to the progressive decline of my vision from
macular degeneration. When I was diagnosed at the age of 69 I wasn’t
too surprised, as my mother and my uncle lived with macular disease
for many years. They provided me gutsy examples of how to live
with vision loss. This longtime exposure to their stalwart optimism
left me with an accepting spirit—one not filled with fear, but
with the will to do battle. I've fought back by developing many
strategies to make my life easier now and to prepare for the day
when I may need to rely solely on my peripheral vision.
When my retinologist wrongly guessed I might
be able to read for only one to two years, rather then being discouraged
I was energized to increase my pace of preparation and to share
what I’ve learned with others who are in the same situation.
As a lay person, I do not attempt to include
coverage of the medical aspects of macular disease. Rather, the
book is a personal guide to dealing with the very real situations
and challenges that you may encounter. My goal is to offer you
real hope, confidence, and optimism about your life with vision
loss.
This large print book was specifically designed
for the reader with limited vision. .Many tests were conducted
with low vision readers to select the type size, font, and layout.
To see the actual results, click on "Sample
pages."
I hope you will find the book both useful
and easy to read.
— Peggy R. Wolfe
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Sample
Pages
Page 16-18 Story -Bleeding in the Right Eye CLICK
TO SEE PDF
Page 63— Measuring Cups
with Dots CLICK
TO SEE PDF
Page 99 Ch7 Intro- Finding Hard to Spot Things. CLICK
TO SEE PDF
Page 101 Large TV Control with Bumps CLICK
TO SEE PDF
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