These anecdotes come directly from the experiences of members of our Fuchs'  Friends, in their own words. We have many of these everyday life experiences with Fuchs'. We call them our "Fuchs' Moments," trying to accept them with a good humor and not allowing them to embarrass or distress us too much.

"I first thought that I was being blessed with some sort of extrasensory perception or something. I was taking a graduate class at a local university,  when my white haired instructor walked into the neon lit room I almost gasped out loud. I turned to the woman sitting next to me and said "Do you see that?" quizzically, and a little startled by my demeanor, she replied "What?" "The aura, can't you see the aura?" My fellow student changed her seat after break. There was a rainbow of color around the Professor's white head, but alas I was the only one privy to it." Steve

"There are so many stories to tell like when I thought a horse was in the road and I stopped with traffic behind me and it was a tree on the side and the  shade was in the road. OUCH." Rebel

"I went to the movie with my family. I was leaning against a rail waiting for my husband. I looked to my left and and saw a lady was standing about 10 feet  from me. She was looking at me so I smiled at her. She smiled back and I looked away. After a moment, I looked back over and she was still smiling at me. I wondered to myself if this was someone that I knew. So I squinted my eyes and focused as best as I could. The first thing I noticed was that she was wearing  the same color shirt as me. The second thing I noticed was that I was looking at  myself in the mirror.........."Vikki

"Fuchs is such a strange disease. One minute you see fine and the next if  stress kicks in you loss your sight into the foggies. When I arrived at the library my vision was limited but "OK" for me. While looking through the movie section, very slowly, it suddenly got very busy in my section. I became anxious  because I felt I was holding people up and the stress took over. Moments later I  could hardly see the movie jackets. Not to have a wasted trip I took any 3 movies in section "B." Well 1 out of 3 is not bad if you have Fuchs. I got to  watch one new movie and two I had seen before. With Fuchs you never know where it will take you. " Fran

"We needed to take our car to the shop, so I followed in the other car. We  took surface streets and I stayed right on his bumper. But at one corner he got through a red light and I didn't. Finding myself alone at a busy intersection  was terrifying. The stress of the moment brought an immediate fog over my  vision! I pulled into the first parking lot I saw and waited until he called my  pager to find me. Shortly afterward I had a doctor appointment for a routine checkup. Doctor noticed my blood pressure was up. NO KIDDING!!!" Dorothy

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