I’ve been in hiatus for a couple of years because—between breast cancer and a sudden, dramatic drop in vision that now hovers around light perception—I felt like I had been smashed in the face with a two-by-four. But like all of you who are determined to see your family’s faces and the world around you, I’ve […]
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How to Pull Yourself Up When Life Throws You Down
This vision loss thing has knocked me down hard plenty of times over the past year. And I know I’m not alone when it comes to the pain of this and other knock-out blows that life occasionally delivers. The only real question is how to get back on our feet once we regain consciousness and […]
Read the rest of this entry »It Starts With Self-Love
I’ve been mean to myself before. But I didn’t realize just how self-bullying, belittling and cruel I could be until my eyesight took a nose-dive last year. Suddenly I could no longer see my family’s faces or the world around me. And I hated myself for it. I have always been an optimist and a […]
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Eyes and art enjoy a long and storied history and why not – the eyes are the windows of the soul. What better inspiration for the creative mind than attempting to capture the eye’s shrouded and brooding mystery? When my youngest child went off to college, I started tackling that long list of dreams that […]
Read the rest of this entry »An Interview with Eye Acupuncturist Lizbeth Ryan
I’ve been hearing about Lizbeth Ryan, an eye acupuncturist in Bentonville, Arkansas, for a few months now. Several of her patients have contacted me to tell me about her; and speak highly of her comprehensive treatment and her affordable treatment prices. A couple have also shared with me eye image scans from their visual field […]
Read the rest of this entry »Learning to See WHAT COUNTS
Going blind sucks. So does walking into an eye doctor’s office for the first time in your life with trendy red cat-eye frames already picked out, only to be told that you’ve got a serious problem that no glasses — regardless of how good they look on you — are going to fix. I was […]
Read the rest of this entry »Treating Retinitis Pigmentosa with TUDCA
I first read about TUDCA (Tauroursodeoxycholic Acid) three years ago and was so excited about it’s potential to preserve photoreceptor cells in people with RP that I immediately made an appointment with a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner and asked if I could buy it from her. I figured that since TUDCA is a synthetic form […]
Read the rest of this entry »I Feel Hope
It’s hard to put into words the emotional swing I’ve experienced over the past couple of weeks. When I walked out of the retinal specialist’s office on January 30th, I felt empty, devastated and doomed. Now, less than three weeks later, I feel like I’ve been handed back my life. For nearly two weeks now, […]
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I went to Dr. Yu’s office last Saturday to meet him and get started on his herbal tea prior to my first ten-day treatment that kicks off March 29th. My amazing friend, Nicole, offered to drive me from Seattle and kill some time at a downtown mall while I was at the clinic. The Wellspring […]
Read the rest of this entry »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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