Igor Delovski Board

[XNote]

mdsupport.org - Computer Vision Syndrome and Computer Glasses

"People who spend more than two hours on a computer each day will ex-
perience symptoms of CVS or Computer Vision Syndrome. The most com-
mon symptoms include headaches, focusing difficulties, burning eyes, tired
eyes, general eyestrain, aching eyes, dry eyes, double vision, blurred visi-
on, light sensitivity, and neck and shoulder pain."

[delovski]

cnn - Declining eyesight can be improved by looking at red light, pilot study says

"Therefore stimulating mitochondria to reduce damage is a way of slowing
aging in general. Our retinas are chock-full of mitochondria -- the highest
concentration of mitochondria of any part of the body."

[Ike]

SteadyHealth - Macular Hole Causing By Extracting A Tooth

"The fact of the matter is that it is near impossible for the eyesight to be
affected in any manner whatsoever following a tooth extraction."

[Ike]

pharmabraille - Pharmaceutical Braille

"The basic braille alphabet, braille numbers, braille punctuation and special
symbols characters are constructed from six dots. These braille dots are
positioned like the figure six on a die, in a grid of two parallel vertical lines
of three dots each."

... Croatia Braille Code

q - How long does it take to learn Braille, and does it get harder as you get older?

"This may devolve into a lecture, apologies! As some of you may know, I've
been learning Braille for the last 6 months to compensate for my declining
sight. To answer the question, however, I need to explain what Braille is and
how it works since there seems to be a lot of confusion about it."

[Ike]

NYT - I Am Going Blind, and I Now Find It Strangely Exhilarating

"My new eye doctor diagnosed me with a type of retinitis pigmentosa, a
hereditary eye disease -- my mother had it, and so does my younger sister.
In the back of my mind, I knew that I had it too, but avoided the unhappy
truth since there is no cure."

via - r - https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/1251rk5/i_am_going_blind_and_i_now_find_it_strangely/

[Ike]

r - Researchers discovered a way to reactivate dormant cells in the retina of mice to restore vision, without the need for transplantation. This could potentially restore vision in patients suffering from degenerative retinal disease