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Low Vision: Let's share about coping day to day

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Hi Everyone
I started this discussion about living with low vision back in 2019. I'm still fighting glaucoma with multiple eye drops every day and visits to optamologist every 3 months.
I'd like to start more discussion by members who have some of the same challenges I have including the following:
1. Difficulty recognizing who other people are unless they come face to face or speak so I can recognize their voice.
2. Difficulty with glare. I always wear a hat to limit light. Airports are the worst with large windows preventing me from reading gate numbers and signs.
3. Difficulty reading documents. I have to have bright light shining on document to read it. I always carry a pen light in addition to cell phone, and I have a gooseneck lamp at my desk I can focus on documents.
4. Walking in unfamiliar territory is dangerous as I can't clearly see curbs or other obsticles. I'm always holding my wife Charlotte's hand when we walk anywhere. I do have a white walking stick I learned to use from Florida Lighthouse for the Blind, but I don't like to use it unless I have to.

I'd like to meet others with some of these same vision challenges, and hear how they cope with them.

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Replies to "Hi Everyone I started this discussion about living with low vision back in 2019. I'm still..."

I listen to a audio books.

Due to multiple retinal detachments I was unable to read and told not to even try to focus on anything for several months. I was still working and had to get my wife to read my emails to I could respond to them. I was left with residual issues and find my depth perception is almost nonexistent and have a particularly difficult time seeing in dim light. So, it helps to have as much natural light as possible, augmented by indoor lights. When reading having a bright light helps a great deal and allows me to see things I would otherwise need magnified.