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Meet Zym. I’ve had him for just over a year. I went in the first place to a guide dog presentation session about 18 months before, so you can tell that the application process is quite prolonged and complicated. Things did not all go well for me during that assessment phase, so I was thrilled [Read More]

by Dan Roberts Dear Driver’s License Inspector, Yesterday you granted me the privilege of driving for another six years. Because I could read the largest line of numbers with my one remaining eye under perfect lighting conditions, you determined that my vision was good enough to allow me behind the wheel. But do you know [Read More]

By: Kimber Lee Empson As told to: Dan Roberts, Founding Director Macular Degeneration Support Sixteen-year-old Kimber Lee was diagnosed with Stargardt disease at the age of eleven. Now preparing to enter college, she tells about living with visual impairment through her important formative years as a teenager. With uncommon candor, she relates her feelings, her [Read More]

by Sharon Noseworthy This dramatic essay was written by Sharon soon after her diagnosis of macular degeneration. It is representative of the initial stage of grief which many people enter upon hearing that they are losing their vision, and it is published here with her permission so that others may realize that they are not [Read More]

by Dan Roberts (Information furnished by Gregg Helmsing) He is legally blind, but he could put a baseball bat in your hands and have you hitting home runs in no time. He can’t see the bat connect with the ball, but he will tell you if it was a good hit. He is Mark Wetzel [Read More]