Chasing the Light

In this week’s entry, I share my Thanksgiving Day feast cooking hacks as we prepare to host our annual “Battle of the Birds” holiday! 🦃 Specifically, I provide helpful tips for the b/vi listeners while working in the kitchen. Finally, I share our favorite Thanksgiving dishes/recipes and beloved family traditions! 🥧 Have a blessed and beautiful Thanksgiving everyone!

In this week's entry, I provide a brief 8-week post-op recovery status and a new vision update (spoiler alert, everything is coming into focus!). Next, I transition the conversation to the topic of my health and wellness journey, and the positive impact it had during the recovery process in the LCA5 clinical research trial. Specifically, I share the story of my struggles with making unhealthy life choices during my teenage years, and my transformation into a healthy lifestyle after I began my walk with God during my college years. Finally, I conclude by connecting every piece of my wellness puzzle to my daily practices of exercising my mind, body, and soul!

In this week’s entry, I share the most recent vision update as I reach the 6-week post-op phase of my recovery process. I describe my experience as I looked through our window and I saw my children playing in the cul-de-sac for the first time as mom (as well as many more positive vision improvements over the past week!)Also, I share the physical and mental struggles that I encountered in the final stretch of tapering from the necessary medication used during the surgery/recovery process. Lastly, I answer the recent question, "Are you glad you did it?," while I explain how my strong faith continues to provide a perfect path forward into an exciting future!

In honor of Blindness Awareness Month, I am participating in the Foundation Fighting Blindness’ #ShareYourVision Campaign! In this bonus entry on my podcast journal “Chasing the Light,” I share my personal vision loss journey with a rare blinding inherited retinal disease, Lebers Congenital Amaurosis (LCA5). I describe my personal experience with blindness as I balance motherhood, marriage, and a career. Lastly, I provide a glimpse into my participation in a clinical research trial for LCA5, and the hope resulting from being involved with the Foundation Fighting Blindness for more than a decade! 👁️🌈🙏🏻 Please consider joining the cause by sharing my vision story or through a contribution to the Foundation Fighting Blindness at www.donate.fighting blindness.org/shareyourvision to further drive research for treatments and cures to end blindness! Thank you all so much for your support!