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"One morning, early in my struggle with AMD [age-related macular degeneration], I looked in the mirror as I was getting ready to shave and realized I wasn't there." Filled with grace and good humor, My Friend, You Are Legally Blind: A Writer's Struggle with Macular Degeneration by Charles Champlin (George Lucas The Creative Impulse) is a brief foray into the author's lifelong love affair with books and how AMD has provided a detour but not a permanent roadblock in his continuing journey as a writer. Champlin, formerly a writer-correspondent for Time and Life magazines and then arts editor and principal film critic for the Los Angeles Times, is addressing others who have had to make similar adjustments in their lives because of macular degeneration and concludes his book with a list of helpful resources.
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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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