Product Description
This invaluable guide to living well with vision loss is the perfect blend of abundant factual material and real-life experience. The book's positive, take-charge approach offers reassurance, hope, and hundreds of proven techniques, strategies, and tips for both the newly diagnosed and those at later stages of their disease. "My Story" vignettes in each chapter describe the author's fears, foibles, and triumphs in challenging situations. Readers will identify with the author's experiences and be encouraged by knowing she successfully traveled the same path. This oversize handbook has large, dark type and is printed on glare-resistant paper for ease in reading by people with low vision.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 4 reviews)

Macular Disease-Practical Strategies for Living with Vision Loss by Blanche C. Comiskey

5 Stars
June 16, 2009
I purchased this book for a relative, who is afflicted with Macular Degeneration. She was delighted with it. Though she has been struggling with her eyesight for a number of years, there were many ideas and suggestions presented in the book that she hadn't thought of. Also, the size of the print was satisfactory and she could read it comfortably.

A Book Not To Be Missed by Marquita O'connor

5 Stars
February 08, 2009
Marquita O'Connor, St. Paul, Minnesota This is 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.

Macular Disese by Gerda Imke (Acton, MA USA)

5 Stars
December 14, 2008
Of all the books written about Macular Degeneration, I found this book to be the most complete and easy to read. I not only purchased it for myself but for a friend with AMD as well. I refer to it often when another problem arises with my disease.

A godsend for those losing their sight by Mary Paynter (Madison, WI USA)

5 Stars
May 06, 2008
Macular Disease: Practical Strategies for Living with Vision Loss This is a real find! I have friends who are living with gradual loss of vision, and this book is the first I've seen that really offers some immediately practical suggestions to improve the quality of their lives. I am going to get a copy for each one. The effect of the whole book is so positive, and that's reinforced by the fact that the author writes from personal knowledge and from her own experience, as well as offering sound medical information. The reference links given in the appendix are also very useful. I had no idea there were so many resources! If you know of anyone with vision loss, get this book for them--it has large type and great illustrations, too.

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