eburns51

Hi Mr. Murse, congratulations on finding a great career and what sounds like an excellent situation. I have been a nurse for just over 22 years and must say though is challenging at times is one of the most rewarding careers around. My specialty is with eye and eye conditions. I will share with you an encouraging story that makes me proud to be a eye care nurse and in taking care of patients. I will try and be brief yet the reaction of our patients is why I decided to become a nurse to begin with. In eye care their is a very scary condition called Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD). It is the leading cause of blindness for patients over age 50. The real scary part of the disease as we have seen countless times a patient can go from perfect vision to complete central vision loss in as little as 48 hours. Just last week a family of our patients came through who have early stage disease (AMD). We had put Mrs. Simmons and her daughter on a vitamin supplement called AREDS for the past 9 years and the disease was still getting worse. Our doctors and specialists had talked with colleagues and were in touch with a wonderful non-profit group for Macular Degeneration (www.maculardegenerationeducation.org). They told us that they had several donors that have been using an alternate product call Macuhealth for the past couple years that their donors raved about. Skeptical as we always are we tried this on Mrs. Simmons and daughter 1 year ago. When they came in for their visit their vision had improved 2 lines of Visual Acuity and from our images we could see the progression of the disease had stopped. Both being over 55 years of age and of course battling this disease for years they were in tears in our office and were so thank ful for the improvement in vision. I share this with you only to illustrate how wonderful being a nurse can be when you see patients like the Simmons that's entire world has changed due to us doing some homework and finding a solution to their problem. Mr. Muse- this is a wonderful profession and though challenging at times the small victories make big impacts in peoples lives. Wishing you a great day. Erin