Day 11

Hello hope everyone is having a great day.

Ok i was going to talk about all the new cool gadgets that they have now for the blind. However, I asked Vi to help me think of topics for upcoming posts, she asked her daughter and Brooke who in her young life had more than her share of things to overcome. She wanted to know how I felt when I was told I would be losing my sight and how I deal with it. Well since I was already handicapped, I had already lost my driver license but when I was told I was legally blind I knew it was final. You see for years I used cheaters glasses, it wasn't till I got established in the V.A. Did I started wearing glasses all the time.

I don't know why but it must have been the look on my face, because Dr. Chamberlin started talking really fast about legally blind is just a number, and how now I can get all the gadgets. Then she started measuring me for binocular which I have to say is really cool because when Elli and I would go for walks, she say look at the bird in the tree and now I can, not normal way but I could see it and the first one I saw in a long time, it was bright blue with yellow beak and feet. I do look at things differently now especially double rainbow's

After that she took me to meet Dr. Dyer, she runs the blind rehab at Cape Coral FL She's a very nice lady although a bit of an odd ball. Right off the bat she said let me ask you a question was off the top of my head name one thing that I can't do anymore but would like to. Because I was not ready, I said read so she ordered my magnifier, which don't get me wrong I love it but. That 50-minute ride home was one of the longest I've ever had, but it gave me time to think and as much as I love to read it wasn't that at one thing. Since the day I was allowed to wear makeup, I never left the house without it as a matter of fact I was a model for a short time.

But I couldn't see to do it when I took my glasses off. So later that same day another doctor called me, she was the director of the blind rehab in Bay Pines VA in Sarasota, she wanted to know how my experience was at Cape Coral VA and if there was anything else she could do for me, so I told her that when I answered that one question after i thought about it that really wasn't what I wanted to say, and I told her about not being able to put my makeup on and how much that bothered me and she said let me work on it well less than a week later I got a package in the mail that had a mirror in it that was a magnified 15 something you really can't find in the store I don't know where she got it but she kept her word. But that's not the worst thing, most emotional part of the whole thing was that my husband never said a word through the whole thing and still hasn't.

Ok that's enough for the today more later bye.