[Blindtlk] Do high partials (legally blind) use a cane?

[cheryl echevarria]

Hello Mari:

Cheryl Echevarria here, yes I use a cane and guide dog.

I still have some vision in the right eye, not as well as you, but when I first started losing my vision in 2002 from diabetes, I was mostly blurred where glasses couldn't help any longer, and no depth perception, I kept tripping over my own 2 feet.

I used a cane, I even gotten help from the Commission for the Blind here in NY.  I was to sick at the time to continue my training again until 2005 when I had a kidney transplant.

I lost all the vision in my left eye, and I still have blurred vision I can see color, shapes, people, but cannot read without my magnification glasses and zoomtext part of the day and then I switch over to Windoweyes.

People say, oh she is just faking it or she is not blind, and then I go into my NFB mode, and say there are many different forms of blindness out there, and not everyone is total, with my diabetes I might wake up one day, and not see anything.

I tell the person who says this to me, here is what I see close your left eye, look through a telescope with your right and don't focus it, that is what I see.

I have my guide dog Maxx and I use a cane as well.


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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mari Hunziker<mailto:marihunziker at gmail.com> 
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  Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 9:46 PM
  Subject: [Blindtlk] Do high partials (legally blind) use a cane?


  Hello NFB friends!

  I hope everyone is well tonight.

  Do high partially sighted (legally blind) individuals use a cane?

  I am legally blind/visually impaired/ partially sighted. I can see pretty
  well to get around even well enough to cross a 4 way stop without needing to
  use my cane. Most people when they first meet me don't realize I have a
  visual impairment. Not until I need to read something or write something
  down do they find out. I have to use a magnifier or a CCTV to see the print
  well enough to read or to write things down. It makes life a bit easier
  and/or complicated. I have run into some situations, like at a restaurant,
  the grocery store, etc, where it would be so ideal to use. I fear people
  would assume that I was lying cause I can see some and/or assume that I
  could not see at all. What do you all think? I love to walk my kids and the
  neighbor kids to and from school and feel okay doing so. I live in a
  neighborhood where we only have to cross one 4 way stop. I don't like it
  when a car is waving us to go and I can't see that so a child in the group
  will tell me. What do you all think I should do in cases like this?

  Is anyone on this list in this situation?

  Thank you,
  Mari Hunziker

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