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Getting Healthy to Help My Eyesight

I felt powerless when I started my journey to heal my eyesight in early February. After yet another visit with a top retinal specialist who told me I had no control over the progression of my Retinitis Pigmentosa, I was convinced that my only hope for eyesight rested in the hands of Dr. Weidong Yu […]

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Getting Back on Track

I’m back after two weeks of hard-core editing to help a group of amazing teens publish their life stories in an upcoming teen story anthology. It’s such a cool project (see the book cover the students designed). It’s also taken a bit of a toll on my eyes. I had planned to return to the […]

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Inexpensive Ways to Preserve and Improve Eyesight

Now that I’m convinced Traditional Chinese Medicine—combined with diet and lifestyle changes—can help heal my eyesight from Retinitis Pigmentosa, I’m obsessed with learning as much as possible about what I can do to preserve and improve my vision. And I want to share it here for anyone who is interested. Before I write more, I […]

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Kicking Off a Year-Long Quest to Fix My Eyesight

I’ve been monitoring the Wellspring Clinic for several years and have long wanted to give their treatment a try. But finances are tight and because I suffer from late-stage RP, I’ve worried there would be little they could do to help me. It took last week’s devastating visit with a top retinal specialist to kick me […]

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