Winning against AMD..
- The Action Plan for WINS.
For all those who have realised “There is nothing anyone can do for me.” – the people with Dry AMD, Age-related Macular Degeneration.
The Objective is for you to rebuild your self-reliance, resilience and self-confidence.
What we can do if or when we learn we have AMD. We need lots of wins to keep us going.
2.1 Immediately start training your peripheral vision to take over as your dominant vision, a strategic and a very important win. Read more.
2.2 Immediately start taking Lutein, forty mg per day, it is a type of insurance policy to try to ensure the status of your eyes holds. Read more.
2.3 Be angry, very angry, that it has happened to you Read more. Read more.
2.4 Immediately channel that anger into helping you devise ways of checking that the road is clear, ways of doing things, of finding new activities, of creating new friendships, objective of multiple wins. Read more.
2.5 Immediately join a support group because they have all been through it and they will help you to get more wins. Read more.
2.6 Immediately go for walks (somewhere green, it`s green), get some waterproof walking shoes, (much to my wife,s horror I wore climbing boots every day everywhere for two or three years!.) Every walk makes you feel good and is another WIN. Read more.
2.7 Get better lighting at home and work and use bright colours. Opportunity for lots of WINS. Read more.
2.8 Think hard about how you can get the best WINS from your smartphone. Read more.
2.9 Think hard about everything you do to make it as successful as you can and get the most WINS. Read more.
2.10 And your support group will give you help with other things like kitchen gadgets and cooking giving you more WINS. “If they can do it, so can I!” Read more.
You can rebuild your self-reliance, resilience and self-confidence.
We are..
Most difficult challenges giving the biggest WINS.
You can rebuild your self-reliance, resilience and self-confidence.
We are.
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Winning against AMD – Age-related Macular Degeneration