Eye Problems

With self-deprecation and surprising wit, Marla reveals what it's like to see the world through her eyes, how it feels to grow up "disabled" in a society where expectations are often based on perceived abilities, and what it means to compete at the world-class level despite the fact that - quite literally, for her - there is no finish line.

Macular degeneration affects over eight million people in the United States. Patients lose central vision, the ability to read fine print and recognize faces. A diagnosis doesn't mean surrendering to these challenges. Instead, understanding this medical condition will help pave the way toward a better future-for yourself or loved one.

Unblinded is the true story of New Yorker Kevin Coughlin, who became blind at age 36 due to a rare genetic disorder known as Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy. Twenty years later, without medical intervention, Kevin's sight miraculously started to return. He is the only known person in the world who has experienced a spontaneous, non-medically assisted regeneration of the optic nerve. Unblinded follows Kevin's descent into darkness and his unexplained reemergence to sight.

When adventurous overseas traveler, Amy, is diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, she has no idea what difficulties lie ahead. After finishing mobility training from the Bureau of Blindness, she thinks her problems are solved, but when Amy tackles the streets with her white cane, the real fun begins. Determinedly sweeping away her fears, she starts to celebrate the reality of vision-impaired independence. Join the chaos and laughter in this series of uplifting anecdotes as Amy looks to the lighter side of mobility.

This taut yet lyrical memoir tells of the author’s experience with a baffling illness poised to take her sight, and gives a deeply felt meditation on vulnerability and on what it means to lose the faith you had and find something better. One day at the end of 2009, during a routine eye exam that Nora Gallagher nearly skipped, her doctor said, “Darn.” Her right optic nerve was inflamed, the cause unknown, a condition that if left untreated would cause her to lose her sight.

Imagine what it would be like to one day wake up and find that you were suddenly completely blind. This is what happened to Vanessa Potter. Her condition is unique. It has no name. Over the course of the next six months, Vanessa slowly recovered her vision. This mesmerising account tells the story of Patient H69 in her own words, based on these detailed diaries she kept during her time of blindness and through the scientific research that was to follow.

Sight Unseen reveals the cultural and biological realities of race, gender, and sexual orientation from the perspective of the blind. Through 10 case studies and dozens of interviews, Ellyn Kaschak taps directly into the phenomenology of race, gender, and sexual orientation among individuals born blind, along with the everyday epistemology of vision. Kaschak's work reveals not only how the blind create systems of meaning out of cultural norms but also how cultural norms inform our conscious and unconscious interactions with others regardless of our physical ability to see. She exposes gender, race, and sexual orientation as unconscious and pre-verbal in the sighted, an aspect of implicit bias.

Retinitis Pigmentosa 101: How to live, grow, and become your best self with retinitis pigmentosa from A to Z. Are you someone who has been diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa or a parent who has recently learned that your child is losing their vision? Then this book might just be for you.

Татьяна Власова – офтальмолог со стажем более 30 лет, из которых 16 лет проработала в МНТК «Микрохирургия глаза» бок о бок с профессором Святославом Федоровым и присутствовала при разборах самых сложных случаев на всех консилиумах. Глаза – зеркало души, и в этой книге автор расскажет, как заботиться об их здоровье, а также предупредить и вылечить наиболее распространенные заболевания. Вы познакомитесь с историями из практики врача-офтальмолога и получите ответы на самые частые вопросы.

The book discusses issues of blind low vision and their families. It is difficult for families of blind low vision to know how they can assist or help their family member. The book provides practical advice and solutions for both the family member and blind low vision person in how to manage with the aim of providing advocacy skills for parents and empowerment for the blind low vision person.

Einfache und effektive Übungen für Sehkraft, Entspannung und Wohlbefinden. Liegestützen, Jogging, Gewichttraining: Viele Menschen wissen um die enorme Bedeutung, die Muskulatur regelmäßig zu trainieren – aber haben Sie dabei schon einmal an Ihre Augen gedacht? Nach Stunden vor dem Bildschirm freut sich nämlich auch die Augenmuskulatur über eine kleine Trainingseinheit und wie Sie das ganz einfach zur Routine werden lassen, zeigt Ihnen dieses Buch.

Most cataract surgery patients are optimistic and for good reason. I have personally performed thousands of cataract surgeries in my career, including members of my own family, and the majority of those operations were qualitatively successful. And because of the success rate of such surgeries, many prospective patients expect perfect vision restored with little or no recovery time. But, as with any surgery, there are potential complications.

"Come sono guarito dalla miopia" rappresenta un testo innovativo nel campo della riabilitazione visiva, l'unico basato sugli esercizi di defocus retinico, la cui efficacia è dimostrata da cinquant'anni di sperimentazione scientifica. Il sistema proposto da De Angelìs permette di prevenire e curare i più diffusi difetti di refrazione (miopia ed ipermetropia), intervenendo direttamente sulle cause che li generano, ovvero stress da iperaccomodazione e vicinanza.

Du willst erfolgreich sein? Gesundheit soll selbstverständlich werden? Findest du nicht die Frau bzw den Mann fürs Leben? Wie machen das nur die erfolgreichsten Personen auf der Welt? Du weißt nicht wie das funktioniert? Dann ist Visualisierung: Visualisierung mit der Kraft der Gedanken - wie du die Macht der Affirmation und das Gesetz der Anziehung nutzen kannst, um dein Leben selbst zu gestalten genau das richtige Buch für dich! Erfahre die Technik....

With recent advances, color-blind individuals ranging from children to adults can now experience full-spectrum colors. Discover the recent breakthroughs in technology, such as EnChroma glasses, color-blind monitors, guides for children with color-blindness, intimate setting for first-time EnChroma users, interviews from case studies of colorblind children and adults, and more. Not only will you discover modern remedies for color-blindness, you will gain unique perspective that has not been available until now.

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was a radio show which aired in the USA from 1939-1950, most famously starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Episodes from 1939 through 1943 were written or adapted by Edith Meiser from the books of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From 1943 onward, most shows were written or adapted by the team of Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher or Green and Leslie Charteris who replaced Meiser who left the show over her disagreements with a sponsor over the amount of violence in the program.

Der gekonnte und effektive Umgang mit Menschen, eines der wohl wichtigsten Aspekte, wenn es darum geht, einen bleibenden Eindruck zu hinterlassen, erfolgreich und einflussreich zu werden und somit seine Ziele zu erreichen, ganz gleich in welchen Bereichen.??Die Kunst?richtig miteinander zu kommunizieren?ist wie laufen lernen,?man fällt so oft auf die Nase?bis man liebevoll?an der Hand genommen wird.

Den Augen Gutes tun: Allein durch die Arbeit am Computer sind unsere Augen einer wachsenden Belastung ausgesetzt. Es verwundert nicht, dass die Anzahl von Brillen- und Kontaktlinsenträgern in Deutschland inzwischen auf über 40 Millionen angewachsen ist. Das Sehen ist jedoch veränderlich und entwicklungsfähig. Mit regelmäßig ausgeführten Übungen können Fehlsichtigkeiten vermieden, die Sehkraft verbessert und die Augen gezielt entspannt werden.

Prelex is the latest lifestyle vision option for people above 45 who are tired of wearing glasses or contact lenses. Prelex is more advanced and beneficial than lasik eye surgery, as it delivers distance, middle, and near vision in each eye (not monovision) is permanent and prevents development of cataracts. This book describes the prelex procedure; presbyopic implants (PI); and what to expect before, during, and after the short procedure. It discusses the advantages of Prelex procedure over lasik eye surgery for people who demand clear vision at all distances.

It is 1988. After three years of teaching English as a second language classes in Latin America, Amy Bovaird is offered a position in Indonesia, halfway across the world. On this archipelago, Bovaird has the opportunity to learn about new cultures. But there is a problem. In the break between jobs, Bovaird pays a visit to her local eye doctor for what she believes will be a routine upgrade of her glasses’ prescription. A lengthy examination with a retinal specialist follows.