My Friend, You Are Legally Blind A Writer's Struggle with Macular Degeneration - Softcover

Champlin, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880284480 ISBN 13: 9781880284483

Publisher: Daniel & Daniel Publishers, 2001

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Book by Champlin, Charles

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Los Angeles, CA

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In "these random notes" about his years with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), Champlin, a Los Angeles Times critic and columnist for several decades, reports the disease's sudden onset and records the ensuing changes in his life and work as well as the heightened importance of his human relationships, especially that with his wife, Peg, a librarian and historian, who became his driver, researcher, primary support, and guide. Touch-typing, which he had learned in high school, also became more important than ever. The cause of AMD is not yet known, and there is no cure for it, though current research may prove valuable. Observing that "the greatest enjoyment and consolation of limited vision is unlimited listening," Champlin is optimistic. He includes much helpful material about various instruments and aids for the partially sighted, increasing the book's value to libraries, which should also obtain D'Amato and Snyder's Macular Degeneration [BKL Ag 00], with its greater amount of current scientific information and its brief accounts by other AMD patients. William Beatty
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About this edition

• Publisher: Daniel & Daniel Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1880284480
• ISBN 13: 9781880284483
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72