Moving freely and safely around your home and how to talk about it As you adjust to sight loss, you and your family or room-mates will need to make changes so you can step freely and safely anywhere in your home. If you are anxious about bruising yourself or falling, you will tend to stay […]
Read more "A Home that Works for Everyone: Tip 1 of 4 – Keep the Traffic Paths Clear"When do you speak about your loss of sight? When don’t you need to mention it? And how do you stop strangers or your cousin from asking intrusive questions? This is a big topic, but here are some tips to start with. At the beginning of your sight loss, you are still the person you […]
Read more "How to Talk About Your Vision Loss, and When"
How you think about your vision can be less about the reality of your eye condition than where you are on the road toward personal recovery. Going through vision loss is a personal internal drama. It seems like a tragedy. If your vision loss or blindness is rapid or instantaneous, it will almost certainly involve […]
Read more "What’s in a Name? Eye Problems? Losing Vision? Going Blind?"
I have tried to deny the painful necessity of growing through my serious vision loss over and over. Denial takes a lot of work to dig up. Each bit you fling out seems the final one. Then another fear, another confusion shows up. But do you want to stay inside a little box with shrinking […]
Read more "Why Doing Things for Yourself is Important: Part 2 of 2"
A friend whose vision is in slow decline wondered why doing things for yourself is so important. “Why not accept help from people who can see well? Surely you would feel safer (or be quicker) with someone sighted along?” There’s nothing wrong with getting help. Everyone needs help and almost everyone offers it. It gets […]
Read more "Why Doing Things for Yourself Is Important: Part 1 of 2"