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To: adorno

“It’s typos, which I used to be good at catching, but, since my eyes have been going bad, I seem to miss them more often.”

My wife, like me is her eighties, about a year ago started having problems reading with her smart phones and kindles and newspaper.

Our health care organization fits reading glasses to use / in the above situations/uses in one set of glasses.

So we got her an RX adjustable reading glasses like I have.

Now, she reaches for her new reading glasses if she is having problems.


35 posted on 08/16/2024 9:48:48 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (If our votes mattered, "Would our votes be counted as either helping Trump or helping Kamala!)
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To: Grampa Dave
So we got her an RX adjustable reading glasses like I have.

Unfortunately for me, reading glasses don't help. I've asked if there is any other type of prescription which could help with my sight problems and several ophthalmologists have said no.

I have a rare disease which affects other parts of my body and that disease apparently affects my eyesight too.

It's called "pemphigoid' or "mucous membrane pemphigoid", to be specific. I'm getting a drug to prevent it from getting worse, but as of now, my vision is badly affected. I've had to increase the size of words on the screen in order to keep up with the world, and it's still hard. Hopefully I won't be fully blind before my eye doctors find a solution.
36 posted on 08/16/2024 10:50:17 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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