Aging in Full Bloom with Lisa Stockdale

January is National Glaucoma Awareness Month.  This sight-stealing disease affects more that 3 million Americans, and the National Eye Institute is projecting a 58% increase in that number by 2030.  The World Health Organization has identified glaucoma as the second leading cause of blindness in the world. People over 60 are considered at risk.   Regular eye exams are your best defense to help prevent unnecessary vision loss.   If you have glaucoma, treatment can begin immediately.   According to the Glaucoma Research Foundation, glaucoma is called "the sneak thief of sight" because there are no symptoms and once vision is lost, it's permanent.   Peripheral vision, or what you can see on the side of your head while looking straight forward, is usually affected first.   Central vision will eventually be affected if the disease is left untreated.   Experts estimate that half of the people who have glaucoma don’t know they have it.   Centers for Disease Control a

Listen here. Open your eyes to possibility of living out loud and aging in full bloom.   If you are reading this, your ending has not been written. You owe it to yourself to live with your arms wide open greeting each new day as your own personal opportunity for growth, happiness and new beginnings.    A NEW KIND OF FREEDOM COMES WITH AGING... Freedom from the grind of all the demands associated with earlier stages of life like the challenges of building a career or being a caregiver.  Consider the following quote from an email entitled  Aging and Friendship   submitted to the Echo Press: "Whose business is it if I choose to read, or play on the computer, until 4 a.m., or sleep until noon?  I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 50s, 60s and 70s, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love, I will. I will walk the beach, in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves, with abandon, if I choose