"Yes I Can" Blog

Do you know what Alexa is? Do you know how to use Alexa? Do you know what you can ask her to do? Whether you have low vision or 20/20 vision, she can be super helpful. She has no buttons or dials to fiddle with and no controls to navigate. You only need to use […]

Readers, have you ever heard about Charles Bonnet Syndrome? It’s all about visual hallucinations, caused by the brain’s adjustment to significant vision loss. In other words, you see things that aren’t really there. Your brain wants more images than it receives, so it makes things up to compensate for the loss of vision. One study […]

“No driving” and “Give me your keys” might be the hardest words to hear or think about when vision is decreasing. Driving represents our independence, convenience, and freedom. A recent chat on the BrightFocus website is called Surviving Without Driving. Here’s the link to the entire transcript. (link) Here are some of the important points […]

**One hint before you start reading about these tags.  Did you know if you right-click on your mouse, there is a function called read aloud that comes up?** WayAround tags can reduce stress and help gain independence.  Why? So much of the information we need is visual, and with these labels, we have immediate help. […]

Syfover is a prescription eye injection used to treat geographic atrophy, the dry advanced form of age-related macular degeneration. This drug is not a cure, but it can slow the progression of retina damage and is administered every 25 to 60 days. In blogs #18 and #19 I talked about eye injections for wet macular […]

Now I know some of you think I don’t need to read this blog. I’m not a burden. But I’m guessing more of you are reading this blog, thinking, yes that’s a problem for me. When vision is low or gone completely and you need help, it can be easy to feel like you are […]

Before I talk about anger, I want to tell you about a website I found. Lots of low-vision information on this site, so much it is almost overload.  70 Best Visually Impaired Blogs and Websites in 2023 (feedspot.com) I have referred to some of the blogs already. Now to anger. Any loss can produce anger. […]

I am not going to talk about self-confidence working in the kitchen, going for a walk, or learning to perform a new task. I want to talk about confidence when speaking to another person. Whether it’s the receptionist in a doctor’s office, the taxi driver, or someone at a party, people connect with their eyes. […]

Readers, have you ever listened to a chat on Bright Focus? This site covers information on Macular Degeneration and Alzheimer’s. Click on Macular and then on Resources. One of the resources is chats. Here’s the link to Bright Focus. www.Brightfocus.org With this link, you can register for upcoming chats or find previous chats. You can […]

I recently attended a Zoom support meeting; the topic was sharing helpful visual aids and hints. Some ideas I was aware of, and others were new to me. We all know about a white cane and how it can help, but do you know what a WeWALK smart cane is? It’s a cane that can […]