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I have something very interesting to share.
Ninny:
Beloved,
You are just WAY too sensible! Ha! ;D ;D ;)
Kathy :D
Ninny:
Claudia,
Oh man you ain't seen nothin' yet! Longhorn is gonna be FULL of it when he gets a computer that works again!
Brian and Steve, I'm sorry you can't enjoy certain things. We take our sight for granted! I was diagnosed with age-related Macular Degeneration about 4 years ago sometimes I have trouble with my eyes sometimes I don't. But I try to take my vitamins and antioxidants to help out my eye health. I was 51 when I started having trouble with my eyes the dr said wow! usually this doesn't show up in someone your age.. So yeah right 50 is the new 30 How rude! Well I guess they'll have to come up with another eye-teaser for the visually impaired! If it's any consolation I had trouble seeing Vangie's picture, but after some eye crossing I finally saw it! (Hint: Longhorn will only be able to see it if he's getting help from, you know, "the spirits" :o Although I have told him to be nice and leave that stuff alone!) ;D ;D ;)
Kathy :D
smeacham:
Well, my "good" eye isn't that good anymore, either. I'll be a year older this weekend, and it shows. MS takes it away from me sometime, too, and has a good chance of not giving it back someday.
I do want to enjoy my eyesight as long as I can, and see as much beauty as I can while I can. But you know what scares me the most about losing my vision? Not being able to read or write efficiently. I've used a wide-margin bible since coming to the truth, and take lots of notes in the margins. There's no way to duplicate that using something like e-Sword. There's no way to flip around the scriptures, following my center-cross-references...but I digress.
But, I hope you see that I DO enjoy plenty of things. Just don't expect me to judge distance very well, or do the Magic Eyes!
Cheers,
Steve
Ninny:
Steve,
I am sorry about your MS life is so full of mysteries. Back in the late 70's the doctors thought I might have MS. They tested me for dozens of different ailments I was just experiencing pain in different parts of my body, mainly my joints, I went from being full of energy to barely being able to keep up with my two boys who were 5 and 6 years old at the time. My husband thought I was suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome I think he thought this after it was over. I was tested for everything from diabetes to the last test I had for Lupus. This all started in the 3 1/2 years we lived in Hawaii. So strange.
I was believing God for healing the whole time. The doctors agreed whatever I had was brought on by stress! I thought I was the most stress-free person in the world! One day I called the doc and said, "I have one eye that is working a lot slower than the other one." They sent me to Honolulu to some kind of huge hospital. The doctor there said, "Well, I have done everything but take your eye out of the socket and I don't see ANYTHING wrong with your eyes! I told my husband, "Well I don't care if I die, I'm not going to any more doctors!" A couple of years later after we got here to Alabama I began having back pain again and gave up to go to the dr. That's when I was tested for Lupus! Nothing! The doctor told me I either had MS or Rheumatoid Arthritis, but nothing sure. It was a long struggle and after a few more years with back pains every time I turned around a muscle would just go haywire in my back!
I decided to start trying to get some exercise so I took up gardening! I spent many months going to the chiropractor and after months of gardening, weight training and other activities my back pain left me!
I have never had a real problem with any of that again! I still get unexplained pain in my muscles and joints, ( getting old ?) ;D ha! but none of it is debilitating like it used to be. The last time I had truly unexplained pain and problems was in 1985 maybe... It was all a mystery, and very strange. So I can understand in a small way what you are going through. I pray that some day MS will be a thing of the past along with all the other horrible things that plague us. We know it will!
I guess we have to enjoy what we have! I know what you're talking about with your vision. I think about how sad it would be not to be able to see the things and people we love so much.
I will pray you will keep your vision!
God bless!
Kathy :)
Sorry, I guess I got off topic a little!
cjwood:
--- Quote from: Ninny on February 13, 2009, 02:59:46 PM ---Claudia,
Oh man you ain't seen nothin' yet! Longhorn is gonna be FULL of it when he gets a computer that works again!
Brian and Steve, I'm sorry you can't enjoy certain things. We take our sight for granted! I was diagnosed with age-related Macular Degeneration about 4 years ago sometimes I have trouble with my eyes sometimes I don't. But I try to take my vitamins and antioxidants to help out my eye health. I was 51 when I started having trouble with my eyes the dr said wow! usually this doesn't show up in someone your age.. So yeah right 50 is the new 30 How rude! Well I guess they'll have to come up with another eye-teaser for the visually impaired! If it's consolation I had trouble seeing Vangie's picture, but after some eye crossing I finally saw it! (Hint: Longhorn will only be able to see it if he's getting help from, you know, "the spirits" :o Although I have told him to be nice and leave that stuff alone!) ;D ;D ;)
Kathy :D
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kathy, i am sorry about your macular degeneration. my momma was recently diagnosed with early stage macular degeneration, but she is 81. i am also sorry to hear about steve and brian each having only one working eye. we who have the ability to see from both eyes do sometimes take it for granted. brian, i now understand your avatar name of 1eyebri. i was able to see the hidden picture in the link vangie provided from magic eye. i have a couple of the magic eye books. i have to agree that the universe God created is sometimes so beautiful that mere words do not do them justice when trying to describe their beauty.
claudia
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