Liver spots, as I pointed out so delicately and with attention to scientific verification in my last post, are not the result of liver problems. Those nasty brown clumps of melanin on light-skinned people are said to be a result of age-induced melanin clumping, or genetic inclination, that just happens to coincide with aging. This [...]
« Filed under Glaucoma, Health, Skin Care »Here’s a simple and apparently quite effective nutritional program that is easy to self-regulate without a lot of brain power. Sounds tailor-made for me.
Emily Isaacson, a certified naturopath from the Xa:ytem First Nation of British Columbia, has designed The Rainbow Program. Six small meals a day as opposed to the more usual three square (plus [...]
A friend of ours from the Toronto film community died the other day at the age of 37. She was a driver in the transportation department who took a job outside of the industry driving a truck up north. Ashley was bobtailing, as they call it — driving a rig without the trailer. She went [...]
« Filed under Glaucoma, Health, Vision »My eyes are dim, I cannot see. I have not brought my specs with me. I have naw ot brought my specs with me.
That’s because I do not carry a purse and the glasses case is too bulky for my pocket.
I want folding reading glasses! Half-eye folding glasses, actually. I am always looking up and [...]
Just because I am fifty…something, doesn’t mean that I want to look like grandma from the fifties. Once I take off my apron and stop baking cookies for my friends with glaucoma, I want to look sveldt in my reading glasses.
Then I’ll put some clothes on.
I’m sure this image will help you all stick to [...]
Excellent! I found some sunglasses that are bevelled, like all good sunglasses should be for UV protection, and they do not distort my vision. Not so excellent is that they are not in my usual spending range of $1.25. Move the decimal over two places.
Ouch, that hurts.
But not as much as vision distortion or eventual [...]
That don’t give me pink-eye or distort my vision.
The wrap-around style popular with hardcore cyclists are considered the best for blocking the evil and sneaky UV rays that like to launch an effective surprise attack from the periphery. The lenses should ideally be brown, grey or dark green, so as not to distort the natural [...]
Macular degeneration is the major cause of loss of vision in people over 60. Macular degeneration means that a portion of the retina is deteriorating, resulting in a loss of the central area of the eye’s visual field. It does not affect your peripheral, or side vision. What you see in front of you might [...]
« Filed under Cataracts, Glaucoma, Health, Macular Degeneration, Vision »Weed tea, pot tea, cannabis tea, marijuana tea, hemp tea: whatever name you give to it, tea made from cannabis sativa for the temporary alleviation of glaucoma had better do its job. And you have wasted a lot of time and possibly a lot of money if you have assumed that you can simply steep [...]
« Filed under Glaucoma, Health »Good news about a sad business folks; marijuana does indeed help to alleviate the symptoms of glaucoma, four hours at a time. Well, usually four hours at a time. This recipe is more like… twelve hours at a time!
Pot temporarily reduces the excessive pressure in your eyes caused by glaucoma. This according to the good [...]