May 8, 2024

Yesterday I went to Dr. Pan, my eye doctor. I don’t look forward to my repeated shorts in the eye, but Dr. Pan is a retina specialist who puts you at ease and does excellent work. In fact, yesterday when he indicated he was finished, I asked in surprise, “Did you do it already? I didn’t feel a thing!” He chuckled and assured me that it was all done. You see, I have wet macular degeneration in both eyes, which means a shot in both eyes, a week apart, every month.

One of the stories in “Family Stories for God’s Glory” is about my eyes when I was diagnosed with glaucoma. At that time, I was a young mother with small children, and I couldn’t imagine how I would take care of them while blind. I had already decided that I was going to lose my eyesight.

I’ve been working on seeing the glass half-full since, which is fifty-some years now. Even though I have wet macular in both eyes, I am not planning to go blind. In fact, I plan on being able to stretch out the injections from every month to many months, a year, or maybe not needing them at all. My glass may be filling up to the top!

Have a half-full glass kind of a day,

See you next time,

Charlotte