Posted: January 16, 2012 at 3:28 a.m.

It is estimated that about 15 million Americans are legally blind, or 5% of our population.  I hope you will help enlighten our community and your readers of the difficulties people with vision disorders face in a world made for those who can see.

December 12, 2011

Dear Editor,

Says she found treatment for macular degeneration that saved her sight

The quality of Ruth Ledbetter’s custom draperies is so well known by interior decorators that she has become legendary. But in 2002, her Joshua, Texas drapery shop became silent.

Her vision had deteriorated so badly that she could no longer thread her sewing machine needle.

She went quickly to her ophthalmologist.