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I’m Hannah Fairbairn and this is my blog. I’m here to help you with questions you have about personal, home, and social life with vision loss. Comment on any post, email me, or subscribe to receive occasional email updates:

Hannah@VisionLossAndPersonalRecovery.com

When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes

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My book WHEN YOU CAN’T BELIEVE YOUR EYES: VISION LOSS & PERSONAL RECOVERY is available now in print and accessible versions. It is the first ever guide to coping with sight loss written directly for people dealing with vision impairment and blindness and their families.

Speak Up Skills

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The new Speak Up Skills page focuses on an essential issue for people who live with low vision or blindness: How to get your needs met when talking to people who see well and have never thought about not seeing.

Vision Loss and Personal Recovery

Living Gifts


With the fall closing in and Thanksgiving only a month away, you can create living gifts now, before life gets crazy, by planting bulbs in pots. There are two types of bulb that have been specially treated so that they can be grown without leaving them in a cold dark place for weeks (a process […]

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Personal Recovery, Part 2: More Denial and Finally Training and Transformation


Last week’s blog post was titled Doctors and Denial, because the first years of vision loss often contain a lot of both for anyone who is losing sight. But eye doctors often join in the denial! Medical professionals in eye department frequently know little about and do not inform patients about practical training using sound […]

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