Sunshine Photography

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Middletown Ohio

03/19/2025

Part 2.

After a week of being radioactive, the metal plaque was removed.
I woke up on the table as they were putting my eye back in but couldn't move under anesthesia!
Talk about loosing your ....p**p!

After flying home things immediately happened.
Kevin, Andy and I recorded
a couple songs I had written for the album project, but I was so weak from the radiation that I could barely sing in the booth. But I am so glad that we were able to do that.And I still have the tapes. Secondly, I had to photograph a wedding a week or two after returning home and I was wearing a pirate patch! ☠️
The photographer is here!
Lastly, I developed a severe cataract in that eye, but as luck would have it..I focus with my right eye.

My right eye is the subject of this story.
Hang in just a tantalizing bit longer if you will please lol..

Fast forward to today..spoiler alert
I obviously lived lol.

I will not bore you with the last 35? years, but needless to say, they have been, dare I say, eventful.

And more than a girl could have ever dreamed of.

2012:
I developed a cataract in my focusing eye as well.

So when I was in my twenties and had the eye cancer I was in a published study.

My right eye is also in a published study but I digress.

In December of 2012 I had cataract surgery on my left eye, then because my insurance was running out, two days later I had cataract surgery on my right eye.

After 25 years of near blindness in my left eye I could see!
But, the good eye..was suddenly blinded backwards as the lens had rotated 180 degrees.
And the surgeon was off on vacation for two weeks to..Bora Bora or Tahiti ..

They repeated the surgery FIVE TIMES without additional images.
I was obviously not particularly happy about this..
I told them my right eye was uniquely shaped..
No one ever listens to me... my right eye is one in so many millions odd shape and one of the worst astigmatisms ever recorded.
It is also in a medical book.
SOMEONE OWES ME ROYALTIES.

Fast forward to last year...
Another cataract in left eye and I can't focus in right...

It became worse. I obtained new glasses.
I went to specialists.

I have been to 8 eye doctors in a month and a half.

I am losing my focusing eyesight quickly...

Surgery is April 15th..

I have been diagnosed with a basically 1 in 20 million syndrome.
You are going to love the name..

Dead Bag Syndrome...yes, I know..

Basically the membrane that holds the lens in place weakens (5 needless surgeries perhaps?),
and the lens moves.

The bag in my eye is floating lost and my lens has moved off the center of my eye.

This is, of course, a problem in itself as I am seeing double and the lens isn't stable.

I will let you use your imagination as to all the bad things this can imply.
Did I mention THIS IS MY "FOCUSING EYE"?
And it hurts.

My vision defines me as a photographer..

Ok..Don't.. cry..

Any way, I hate to admit it but I am scared.
And the surgeon said I most likely will not see for a month from this eye.
I already can't see from my left.

And there is the $ which They want 5 days before that I do not have..

So that is the first surgery and I need all the prayers, good karma, healing light, extra pennies if ya got 'um ,maybe a sandwich lol

And I hope I will see again.



03/19/2025

Firstly, I wish to apologize for my silence and absence over the last year plus. I have been handed physical challenges and I have always been a private person who deals with personal issues better by retreat within to deep mental evaluation. Basically, I do not like burdening others with my crap.

But ..I have reached a point where silence and retreat may no longer be the most advantageous route for my physical and mental well being..

Basically, I have at least two major surgeries this year, possibly three , and of course, there are serious risks involved.

As they say "We ain't gettin' any younger."

Secondly, before I get into this lengthy dissertation (yet still somehow withholding a great deal of juicy stuff lol) that will lead to my current, very rare phenomenon, I would like to thank you all.

If I never have this chance again...

I want to thank each and every One of you.
I want to thank those who have been my friends,
My Comrades in arms, My sounding board, my party buddies.
My photographic family. From my first experience, instructor, co-creator, to my past employees ,labs,framers, and thousands of friends, ,
Without you the vision and beauty dies.
All of my clients...
My inspirations, My muses, Who have enriched my world with their beauty, It has been the greatest honor of my life to Capture the moments that were important to you and
Create a legacy of those moments for your future generations. I pray you remember me fondly.

My family,
My children, Especially my daughters who challenge me daily.
with their intellect ,insight ,and eye rolls.
My son, who taught me patience and pain, I miss you more than life.
My brother who inspired my love of rock muck at birth.
Every musician friend, thank you for the food that feeds my soul.
Every biker friend, thank you for the best memories.
Every Facebook friend and Follower
Thank you for the love and support.

Now, the story..

Part 1.

Many of you that know me are aware that early in my photography journey I was diagnosed with an extremely rare form of eye cancer in my left( non-focousing) eye.

I was one of the first to have an experimental radioactive plaque surgery at Will's Eye Hospital in Philadelphia to stop the growth of the tumor on the back of the retnia, saving my eye, and my life.

I was told I was one of approximately 5 million to have this type of malignant melanoma and only 15% had survived.

I always said " Having eye cancer was God's way of opening my eyes to the beauty and gifts around me."
When I was being taken to surgery I made Him a promise.
At the time ,
my daughter's father had just taken his life 6 weeks before her 6th birthday, I was preparing to marry my second husband at that time, I was carrying a 4.0 and preparing to graduate with my second college degree as well as working.
But , in my early twenties , I was still "trying to be a rockstar".
So fearing the worst, I bargained as many do.
If He allowed me to live, allowed me to care for my child, , I would use this gift He had given me to see a bit differently to benefit those around me in any way possible.




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I have spent the last last 3 hours trying to see and acknowledge all you wonderful friends who have taken the time to wish me a Happy Birthday but if it was more then 7 hours ago, I can't seem to retrieve those no matter how many times I keep going back through all the previous, 2 by 2..it keeps crashing ..UGH!@!!!&*;@!!

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I have lost a very dear friend. A once in a lifetime man. I can write no words worthy, sing enough praises ,shed enough endless tears.
He was my favorite photographic muse,
A mentor, a smile, the greatest time and always an honest voice of consultation.
He looked like a killer and said "Tuttles".

Save me a ride.

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HAPPY 31ST BIRTHDAY TO MARIA!!!!

31 years.
Where has that lifetime gone?
I was 28, your dad, 31..
And now YOU are 31.. An absolute impossibility in the realm of space and time.
Yet here you are, BABY.
A grown, Beautiful, kickass, excessively intelligent, educated, Empathetic ,compassionate , loving, intuitive, insightful, still water running deep, pillar of the group dynamic, DEEP, OLD SOUL ,literary genius, should be a lawyer ( or a doc, vet) of a
Young woman.

Who just happens to be my clone.
And my MOST CHERISHED youngest daughter..

I love you more kiddo 💓 💗

I'm still here and thinking creativity.
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I'm still here and thinking creativity.

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