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Through Our Eyes

A Gallery of Personal Visual Perceptions
Contributed by the Macular Degeneration Community

The following visual field photos were created from information submitted by the MD Community.

photo illustrating blind area/s
 Subject: Dan Roberts.
Pictured: Left eye. Map of scotoma derived from computerized perimetry test, compliments of Nidek Technologies, Inc.
Condition: central serous chorioretinopathy. Right eye in early stages.
photo illustrating blind area/s
 Subject: Donna Broadstock.
Pictured: right eye only.
Condition: wet form, macular degeneration. Early stages of dry form in left eye.
photo illustrating blind area/s
 Subject: Bob Thompson.
Perception shown: both eyes.
Condition: cone-rod dystrophy (best diagnosis to date).
photo illustrating blind area/s
 Subject: Lara.
Pictured: both eyes.
Condition: Stargardt’s syndrome.
photo illustrating blind area/s
 Subject: Joan Micone.
Pictured: both eyes.
Condition: Stargardt’s macular dystrophy (Fundus Flavimaculatus).Constantly shifting waves of distortion.
photo illustrating blind area/s
 Subject: Colen Benfield.
Pictured: both eyes.
Condition: wet form, macular degeneration. Right eye in early stages with blind area and surrounding dimness covering most of lower left quadrant of VF Grid. No central vision in left eye except 1st column of grid. Vitrectomy surgery performed on right eye in late 1998.
photo illustrating blind area/s
 Subject: Linda Olsen.
Pictured: left eye only.
Condition: Macular Degeneration.
photo illustrating blind area/s
 Subject: Pam Moore.
Pictured: right eye only.
Condition: Macular Degeneration
photo illustrating blind area/s
 Subject: Barbara Brown.
Pictured: both eyes.
Condition: Macular Degeneration with bilateral drusen. Diagnosed at age 50 in 1996.
photo illustrating blind area/s
 Subject: Alan Wilson.
Pictured: both eyes.
Condition: Left eye diagnosed as MD with choroidal neovascularization, Sept. 1999. Right eye rediagnosed as possible serpiginous choroiditis.
photo illustrating blind area/s
 Subject: Bert Schaefer.
Pictured: left eye only.
Condition: Wet MD.
photo illustrating blind area/s
 Subject: Cheri Matthew.
Pictured: both eyes.
Condition: Stargardt’s. Visual imaging has been as pictured since age 51 in the year 2000. Reading text is similar to Joan Micone’s example (above) with addition of blind areas.
photo illustrating blind area/s
 Subject: Jody Thomann.
Pictured: left eye.
Condition: Edema caused by early stage dry macular degeneration.
photo illustrating blind area/s
 Subject: Fred Hemmer.
Pictured: both eyes.
Condition: Macular degeneration.
To see through the eyes of our RP friends, visit Through Our Eyes II