[blparent] working blind mother

Jo Elizabeth Pinto jopinto at msn.com
Wed Jan 18 01:41:20 UTC 2012 

I contacted Christian Record, but they already had enough proofreaders.  I 
went to a camp they sponsored once, and it was nice, but a little too 
structured for me.  I felt like a teenager all over again, getting told when 
to go to bed and get up and eat and all that by people half my age.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Peggy" <pshald at neb.rr.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 6:37 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] working blind mother

> Oh true, proofreading jobs are hard to find, I proofread for Christian 
> Record Services, I'm sure some of you have heard of them, and it didn't 
> fall in my lap either.  I wish I could find other proofreading jobs 
> because CR is only parttime and a non-proffit organization and I don't 
> make enough money doing it.  But you take what you can get, they are 
> Seventh-day Adventists which I am not, and although I get grief from them 
> on occasion I've been with them almost 20 years.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 5:26 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] working blind mother
>
> I took the braille transcriber's course from the Library of Congress. 
> Then
> I got some business cards printed up and bought hundreds of postage 
> stamps,
> and researched and wrote to every place I could find in this country that
> produces braille.  I had a friend who goes to a lot of the braille
> conferences pass out cards for me.  Out of those contacts, I got maybe 
> eight
> or ten clients, give or take.  It's a good job because I can set my own
> hours and be at home, but it didn't just fall in my lap.  And let me tell
> you, when you get your sixteenth American history textbook, or a manual on
> how to dissect cats--yes, I did proofread that--it can be tedious or
> disconcerting.  So I have to be pretty disciplined and make myself work
> every day because, like with most any job, you don't work, you don't get
> paid.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
>
> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant 
> of
> the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all 
> of
> these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
>
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> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 2:16 PM
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> Subject: [blparent] working blind mother
>
>> How and where did you get such a cool job?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
>> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 10:05 PM
>> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] lights and sighted children
>>
>> Most of the braille is still hard copy textbooks that are sent to me in 
>> the
>> mail, but I also do electronic braille files with a Type Lite.  Then I 
>> write
>> reports of where the errors are and how to correct them, and I use 
>> Microsoft
>> Word and Jaws for that.  I either mail the reports back to the agencies 
>> with
>> the braille, or send the reports by e-mail and recycle the braille paper.
>>
>> Jo Elizabeth
>>
>> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
>> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant 
>> of
>> the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all 
>> of
>> these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 8:59 PM
>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] lights and sighted children
>>
>>> So do you do this with a screen reader or Braille? Or something else?
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>> On Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 6:36 PM
>>> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] lights and sighted children
>>>
>>> Hi.  I proofread braille, mostly textbooks.
>>>
>>> Jo Elizabeth
>>>
>>> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
>>> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and
>>> tolerant of the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will
>>> have been all of these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943,
>>> American scientist
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:57 PM
>>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] lights and sighted children
>>>
>>>> We opted out of the ointment as well.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>>> [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>>> On Behalf Of jan wright
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:41 PM
>>>> To: blparent
>>>> Subject: [blparent] lights and sighted children
>>>>
>>>> thanks to all who responded.
>>>> Good information about the eyes and sight development: thanks.
>>>> and, yes, keeping them off is cheaper and preferable, but not anymore.
>>>> And, I get excited knowing what Azaan might be seeing and might want
>>>> to interact with.
>>>> Hey, I just might have to set an alarm: -- "lights off at this time"
>>>> to remind me.
>>>> I like the timer on your lights idea, but don't know how to do it.
>>>> someone's DH must be a "Bob the Builder" kind of guy. (smile)
>>>>  (smile)
>>>> We opted out of the ointment because it is to prevent infection from
>>>> sexually transmitted diseases. since many mothers either don't know
>>>> that they have Ghonoreah or Klimydia, Doctors give it to all the
>>>> babies -- just in case, just like the Vitamin K shot to clot the
>>>> blood, in case you are going to circumcize or the HepB vaccination
>>>> --[do you know how it is transmitted and the actual likelyhood of your
>>>> infant getting this disease??],   which is another thread entirely.
>>>> My point is that this ointment does not need to be given to babies
>>>> whose parents are certain that they don't have these two STDs because
>>>> Mom has been tested during pregnancy and no one has been fooling
>>>> around. I am a bit offended that the assumption is that I or my
>>>> husband are too ignorant to know whether we have an STD or too
>>>> irresponsible to care.  There are also side effects to the ointment,
>>>> if you want to google them.... for any preg parent.
>>>> anyway, the information about sight development is quite helpful!
>>>> THX.
>>>>
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