Grief and Loss

Anne: My name is Anne Rinard, and in 2018 I was diagnosed with macular degeneration. In 2021, my kids were here for Mother's Day, and I noticed that I couldn't read the clock and just a few other things that were blurry. When I went back to the retina specialist, they gave me an injection, so for a year I was going almost every other week because it was changing so much. Every time you lose some vision, it's almost like starting all over. I find the emotional adjusting and readjusting to be exhausting, and that was why I signed up for the Hadley peer to peer.

When my mom was in the hospital with congestive heart failure, I called my peer. I called Linda and I'm like, “I'm pointless here

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