Life of Wry

Spent a good bit of time here today with my mom. An interesting place that is pioneering a number of treatments for an eye disease that is increasingly common in older adults (especially blue-eyed white women) and can lead to blindness if ignored, and sometimes does, anyway, even if not ignored.  I learned about dry macular degeneration (the “good” kind; blurry vision is the first sign), wet macular degeneration (the one you don’t want; straight lines that appear wavy is a sure sign that you have it), drusen and amsler grids.  I’ve got a handy sheet of dietary guidelines and supplements for slowing or preventing the disease.  Good thing to have if you’re hereditarily downstream of someone with macular degeneration (which I am, and it’s the wet kind).

Anyway… the doctor was very cool and is on the forefront of treatment strategies.  He’s apparently a leading authority on effective supplements, which seemed corroborated on a number of websites I checked out later.  He runs an impressive facility.  And has a lot of surfer art by a guy named Fred hanging on all the walls…. like this one:

* Also, drink a glass of red wine daily, eat two servings of fish (the oily ones) a week, and avoid red meat and processed snack foods.  You might also want to get your hands on some bilberry extract and grape seed oil.  And lots of other stuff.  Look it up!