As a child my left eye was turned until corrected by surgery at age 8 but hence, little vision ever developed and the acuity of that eye is 20/300 or thereabouts. However my right eye was fine, 20/20 even 20/15 after being corrected for nearsightness until a few years ago when I first realized I had a vision problem in that eye. The problem is mainly center vision related. The center has a blur spot very bad in low light, better as the light increases. It would remind you of looking thru a spot of grease. Also straight lines are curving, particularly when viewed at an angle. Also quite a bit of color perception loss, particularly for small objects. When reading the resistor color codes (I work in electronics), I have a had time telling, greens, browns and reds apart unless I look at it under a microscope so it is really blown up. With larger objects, traffic lights, etc., I seem ok still, in the color perception area. I've had quite a few tests done including I forget angio something or other where they inject dye and take pictures of the retina but all appear normal. One doctor says he sees a slight cortical cataract but others say it is not bad enough to cause the problems I'm describing. What is scary is that my father is legally blind without a determined cause although his started as a small child and they wonder if the measles caused it. I could still see 20/20 at age 35 (I'm 42 now).
Doing fine work at my job is tough now including soldering and I use magnfication tools a lot although I don't like them. I basically can still read most things ok although I need a lot more light then I used to and have to hold them closer. I do not like LCD monitors as their native resolution is too small for me and they do not look good when viewed at other then the native resolutions.
So that's my life eye story. I've asked to be put on salary at work as the salaried people qualify for company paid long term disability which is more then what the government gives. Of course I have no idea how hard it would be to get long term disability company or government, whether not seeing well enough to do your job or get a driver's license is sufficient or you would have to be declared legally blind. I've heard lots of mixed stories from people in their experiences in attempting to qualify for long term disability. According to my last social security statement, I would qualify for government $1600 a month. If I did not have to pay taxes on that, I could move somewhere cheaper and maybe survive, perhaps back to Vermont where I grew up.
I'm sorry about your vision loss. The only good thing about mine is I don't take any of the senses for granted. Today I went bike riding and cherished every moment of watching the farmers hay the fields, etc.