Eyes are thought to have first developed in animals, in a very basic form, around 550 million years ago. Since then, they have become the second most complex organ after the brain. We hear all the time about the wonderful ways our brains work for us, but our peepers sometimes don’t get the respect they [Read More]
Category: Patients’ Writings
Essays, poetry, and stories from the low vision community.
Travels With Charlie
About the Author Travel Companions Why Travel? Mobility Let’s Go For a Walk Vision and Seeing Let Your Ears Be Your Eyes A Computer and You The Final Journey, Part 1 The Final Journey, Part 2 Friends, Neighbors, and Relations: Alternative Sources for Transportation About the Author Charlie Zell was president of the Organization of Macular [Read More]
Musings on Growing Old
by Dan Roberts I’ve become an absent-minded, decrepit, sleep-deprived, unfit, anti-social, wrinkled image of my former self. For one thing, I’m forgetting words mid-sentence. My listeners usually suggest a few words until either they either lose interest or hit upon a good substitute, at which time I forget what I was talking about anyway. Then [Read More]
Consumed
I understand being consumed by low vision. It is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel when there doesn’t seem to be any light. So now what? I find that, the times I focus on it, I become more scared and more consumed by what I can’t do anymore and what [Read More]
Doomed Dreams
There I am, running on a field Touching three bases and arriving home Hearing the fans celebrate And the singing truck giving away ice cream cones My family and friends smiling at their All-star, so very proud After nine innings, I head to Buck Boone Road Things like this, I could never give up There [Read More]