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Driving Research and Saving Sight

I personally experienced a temporary (partial) blindness in my left eye due to vitreous hemorrhage. It's very scary! I value the gift of seeing so much. I enjoy taking pictures of God's beautiful creation. Sight is precious to me! While we care about eating right and staying fit, we should also care about keeping our eyes healthy. I'd like to encourage you all to learn more about Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) by listening to the video below about AMD from a grandmother's perspective and downloading a free educational packet on AMD (provided by Foundation Fighting Blindness) from this link. AMD is a common curable eye disease. Feel free to share this post and help spread the news about the efforts that are being made to fight AMD and in some cases, reverse the disease. Please use #ffbamd when posting about AMD (Age Related Macular Degeneration). Thank you!
Every year nearly 10 million Americans go blind due to AMD or Age-related Macular Degeneration. The exciting news is that a cure is in sight! The Foundation Fighting Blindness, a non-profit organization, has provided funding for research on cures for blindness, specifically AMD, since 1971. In fact, with the research FFB has already made possible, treatments to stop and in some cases even reverse retinal disease is a reality. This is great news for people over 55 and their families. With AMD it is nearly impossible for grandparents to enjoy the little things in life such as playing games, watching movies and reading to their grandchildren. However, due to innovative research, those things are once again possible for many people…but, they need to continue this outreach, support additional research and find cures. Their campaign focus is on ‘Driving Research & SAVING SIGHT!’.



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