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False hopes

Posted on by One Vision
Cartoon woman with hand over mouth with red sore eye shut
Sometimes I can forget my limitations. So far not many.

It’s like with some things I forget I can’t see properly.
For instance. It was one of my sisters from another misters wedding the other week.
So, I thought, I’m going to get some false eyelashes and they will look nice.
So off I went and bought them. Chuffed with my purchase went home and put them with my outfit and waited for my friends special day.
On the big day, I had already done my eyebrows with my magic 10X magnification mirror, (which you can imagine wasn’t easy…another story) my makeup was on with plenty of time to spare. I had spent a lot of time with my magnifying mirror, (another post later about this genius little item).
Then time for the lashes. Popped the glue on, realised I couldn’t hold my mirror AND stick them on at the same time.
Ah, I thought, how am I supposed to do this 🤔
Had to use the big mirror with a magnifying side but not like the shear epicness of my other little magic mirror.
So I thought, I will stick them on and slide them around if I don’t get the right spot. Hard when my double vision was kicking in.
Plopped them on the spot I thought would be right.
Wrong. Too high up and I had bought black blumming glue! I hadn’t seen that detail on the packet.
I stared at my black smudgy, gluey sticky eye.
With not long to go now before I was being picked up.
It\’s a good job I never really wear these often as I could have had a meltdown.
Then I sat down and stared at myself in the mirror and just really started laughing.
A couple of years ago I managed perfectly OK when I popped some on for Halloween. Now it looked like I WAS Halloween or Alice Cooper. So I was surprised.
Now, may not seem much, but getting used to what I can do, what I can find a way to manage to do, and what I can\’t do now when once I could. Is humbling and a challenge. Usually I find a way but this… no chance.
Realising next time I will ask a friend or just buy some better mascara.
I quickly tried to wipe the glue off from in and around my now sore eye. Patch up my makeup to match the other eye then went downstairs.
Then there was a knock at the door. My friend was here to pick me up.
Quick check in the mirror thinking, well I haven’t done so badly with it.
Closer look, one red sore looking weeping eye.
Just when you want to look your best ☺
Hey ho, lesson learnt.
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Thankful

Posted on by One Vision
Thank you for the lovely messages I’ve received 😘.
I will write about some of the questions I’ve been asked in the future through the facebook and here.
There are NO questions you can’t ask. I’m an honest person who isn’t offended and will not take it personally.
I want people to ask questions.
Then they can understand what\’s happening for me and others with the same condition.
There really isn’t much out there when you first get diagnosed. So hopefully someone will come across this website and it will help them, because I was in shock for quite sometime afterwards.
Primarily, this is to help people who are wanting information about progression and understanding of the disease. Then for me to track what’s happening as I need to get it off my chest.
Also can I just say, Macular Dystrophy, as with many eye conditions, will be a different experience to each person diagnosed.
My progression, (see how I’m using that word instead of deterioration 😉) will be quicker or slower to someone elses.
I say this because in the early days, that’s all I searched for. Looking how long I would be OK, but there isn’t an answer. It’s individual to you.
There will be positive posts, and then some that won’t be. A real reflection about how things are going.
This doesn’t mean I’m sat here depressed about it.
I just get on with it.
So thank you ☺
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What is Retinal Photography?

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What is Retina photography?

The main objective of using this technology is to improve the opticians or consultants ability to determine the status of your retina health in a better way. Early detection of eye disease is crucial and retinal photography helps them diagnose potential problems before they become too serious.

I have had this done at the opticians and the hospitals. (The first time I was given this in a routine eye test in an opticians, it lead to my diagnosis) other eye tests in the past never picked this up. Mainly, as this service wasn’t available then.

The docready for the examination.

Next you pop your head onto a chin and forehead support to keep your head still whilst placed in front of the machine.

You stare at an object while a laser scans your eyes. The photographs are then viewed on a computer. The images will be upto a 100 times magnified.

It’s painless and gives the professionals a good view of the back of your eye.