Posted in The Medical Stuff

Lipofuscin, Drusen and Floaters

Posted on by One Vision
Derailed eye images on a clipboard explaining in picture form what is written in the blog post here

Now and again floaters appear.
We all have them it isn’t exclusive to the condition that I have.
So you know what I mean by this.
What I do have slowly building up inside is Drusen (Lipofuscin), a cell waste deposit, yellow in colour that because of my macular not coping with vitamin A and any waste the eye makes. Not being able to process it, just hangs around in there.

Drusen is a German word that means “rock” or “geode.” They are like tiny pebbles of debris under the retina. The cause of the drusen deposits is related to a type of “garbage” disposal problem. Retinal cells dump unwanted material, and immune cells normally clean up most of it. However, if too much is dumped, or it is not properly packaged for disposal, it can pile up. The drusen contain proteins and lipids (naturally occurring molecules that include fats). So this can scar the macular cause cell death and make it degenerate. Causing central vision loss.

Usually get about 1 or 2 at a time. Not many. This happens rarely but thought that I would mention it as I\’m going to read all this back to track my progression.
These don\’t bother me yet.
Usually if you see me with a coffee sticking my fingers in it trying to get a speck, a bug, a bit of dust out. You can bet 9 times out of 10 It\’s usually just a floater I\’m seeing in my coffee and I only realise when there is nothing moving to the side of the cup ☺

Posted in How I'm Adapting, Useful Information

Large font keyboard for mobiles

Posted on by One Vision

The keyboard I use for my phone and tablet is called SwiftKey.

You can make the pad larger so you can see the letters and numbers.

Also, you know those tiny blumming emojis and pictures? Well just type in a word of the emoji or picture you want to use ie… clapping 👏, laughing 😂, even monkey 🙊, and it will pop up on the right hand side of your keyboard if you have selected emoji predict.

Alot easier because you don’t want to be accidentally giving a smiley ☺ face or a thumb👍 up to a message or post that requires a sad 😔 face do you?

Posted in Funny Stories, How I'm Adapting

Making up isn’t so hard to do

Posted on by One Vision
Makeup.

There is a way round this for now.
And its this..

A 10X magnifying mirror. You can get stronger strengths of you need them. Saves me from stressing out putting makeup on, doing eyebrows etc and saves time.

Eyeliner takes a while as both eyes have to match, obviously. I’ve nearly gone out with berry coloured lip pencil before now on one eye… Actually.. I’ve just had a thought… If I put some bright nail varnish on the end of the lip pencils.. I will know it’s the lip pencil won’t I? Genius. Don’t know why I didn’t think of that before now. Problem solving. Getting good at this.
Anyway, I’m digressing… they have got to match and usually the first friend I see if I’m going out is greeted by… ‘hello… *hug* is my makeup ok’.
You don’t want to look a clown or drag queen when you haven’t blended your foundation correctly or if one eyebrow is concerned and the other surprised.
Just takes a bit more patience and concentration these days but it can be done ☺
Now nail varnish. This is a pain in the arse. I cannot see my nails to put the nail varnish on. Mainly because the flesh of the fingers and the nails are similar in colour. They sort of merge together.
I hit and hope. Maybe just writing this now has made me think I should fathom out a way. So I will. It may look like this – (please see picture below)… for all I know. Unless I put my fingernails right up to my face to look.
Womans fingers with badly applied red nail varnish
So, I would recommend starting with a 10X magnifying mirror possibly one you can clip or suction into something if there is such a thing (this would have been useful earlier… Please see the False hopes post 😕).