Isn't it Charles Bonnet (BO-nay)?

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Frank C. Wimberly
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Santa Fe, NM 87505

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On Mon, Dec 7, 2020, 4:40 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> Nick -
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> I don't know about this syndrome by name (Charles Bonnet), but am familiar
> with "sundowner's syndrome", having "walked two old men to their graves
> over a decade (each) with Alzheimer's" and observing their agitation
> (better and/or worse) as the quality of light shifts just before/after
> sundown.   I am also acutely aware, myself, of the experience of twilight
> reducing visual acuity to the point that I am irritated and mildly confused
> because I think I *should* be able to distinguish various things (writing,
> diagrams, threaded fasteners, etc.) and I am unable to.
>
> I have known people who had slow developing cataracts who felt a profound
> loss of cognitive ability from the creeping loss of vision which they
> didn't appreciate until they had cataract surgery and the majority of the
> loss (vison and by correlation their sense of cognitive inhibition?)
>
> I am, for one, waiting with bated brethe to know if you are in fact
> suffering/recovering from something and whether you have reason to believe
> (up to and including testing) it to be the "evil COVID"!   And again, by
> correlation, if there is anything anyone here can do to help (except maybe
> not write you long missives and expect you to read and respond?)
>
> - Steve
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> On 12/7/20 3:35 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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> Do you know about Charles Barret syndrome [*Quod Googlet*}. It is caused
> by declining vision but can become dramatic when we spend a lot time in
> dimly lit rooms.  Gives a new angle on what we mean by exerience
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> Nicholas Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
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> Clark University
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> [email protected]
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam <[email protected]> <[email protected]> On
> Behalf Of Steve Smith
> Sent: Sunday, December 6, 2020 1:51 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [FRIAM] Nick's Recovery
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> > Thanks, frank Perhaps feeling better today.  The effect of the disease
> are increasingly psychological.  I just don't uuant to talk to anybody.
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> thanks for checking in with "proof of life". ..
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> know that we are all pulling/praying/meditating/hoping for you to have
> both a smooth recovery and perhaps some meaningful fever-dreams while you
> are at it.
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