May,
sorry to hear about the rapid progression of your AMD.
A friend of ours has it too and she needs to take great care crossing roads and walking steps, because she can only really see out of the corner of her eyes and not straight on. They have fixed black tape to the edges of the steps going up to their house, so she can see better and not trip. She manages reading with her Kindle on the largest print setting, but prefers to have the computer hooked up to the telly to make the print larger and easier to see. They are looking into speaking computer software too.
Her husband does all the driving. And also the cleaning, she just can't see enough to know where to clean. Recently they hired a 'lady who does' for a few hours to help with some jobs. Sewing on buttons etc is also nearly impossible. I hope you have help or can organise help.
There are two types of AMD, one can be treated. Our friend had treatment but that only halted what was already a pretty bad deterioration. She mentioned that rather than the course of injections she had last year, they now do a laser treatment instead. Hope there is treatment for your type. She sometimes gets frustrated because she appears 'clumsy'and 'slow' yet nobody can see why on the outside. A neighbour (who apparently does not know) has been very unkind and spread rumours that she is lazy, because her hubby does cleaning. Please tell people around you so they can understand and be ready to help if needed.
Dame Judi Dench has it too:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17084970I hope you will soon have a support network and coping strategies worked out, so that you can continue with the things you like to do.
