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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">In this message, I’ll respond to Eileen, Nathanael, and Joyce.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Eileen:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I totally agree we should move on to productive lives, and I also agree with you that, if I could get my sight back, I’d take it. It’s easily reversible with
a pair of sleep shades if the vision ever became a nuisance, so there would be nothing to lose by having it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I have no objection to doctors who want to restore eyesight, but I do respectfully object to the dramatic praise of regaining just a little eyesight, especially
when the degree to which it is restored provides no significant advantage to a properly trained blind person.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Not all of us have achieved that point at which we no longer mourn our blindness, but I know we all can, and I wish we all will. It doesn’t have to be an overwhelming,
preoccupying mourning to exist. It is apparent from the tone with which some people express the desire to regain sight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Nathanael:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Yes, I lost my sight at age 15. My Granddad actually died when I was 13, and I inherited his truck, which is what I used to learn how to drive.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Joyce:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Your attacks on my ability to exercise compassion are not the first ever. I imagine that you are indeed hurt by something I said, and I first apologize for
not communicating in a way that was not inflammatory to your ears. It is because I care that I took the time to sit down and compose a comprehensive analysis of the issue at hand. To be quite frank, I wish we had no purpose for this discussion, but, since
it was thrust upon us, we must rise to the occasion and address the misperceptions in society. We are not naturally immune to these misperceptions, so it is up to us to inoculate each other against these misperceptions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">When speaking in ethnic minority communities, I often upset those who have been taught that they were eternal victims of the white oppressors and that they
should complain on these grounds to receive as many reparations as they possibly can. I often do this by pointing out one very simple truth. We have two choices in life: mourn the past that we cannot change, or take responsibility for ourselves and move
forward. There are many who do not want to hear it, but it is true. There are times to sit and mourn with people, and there are times to encourage them to think positively.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">In my analysis of the article, I only discussed the option that leads to success and fulfillment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I have no concept of what it is to lose a spouse. I hope I never do, and I hope it’s because I die before the wife that I may someday have. There is absolutely
no response for most of us when you introduce this concept as support for your point of view. What many people experience when these types of supports are used is a discomfort, or at least disconnection, because of the inability to relate. I recognize that
you were trying to offer something to all of us with that support, but I cannot connect with it. I often have connections between my experience as a blind person and my experience as a Native American man, but I have learned by trial and error (trust me,
much error) that I cannot do so unless I am able to clearly explain the connection in a way to which non-native people can relate. Otherwise, it kills the conversation and lacks positive effect.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I am participating in this discussion because I care about you and everyone else here and have empathy for the way that society has led you to think about blindness.
I was once there, and I’m so glad to have been corrected. I often feel from your responses that you do not like me, but I want to be clear that I hold no negative feelings toward you. I am here to provide the encouragement that we all need to not sell ourselves
short because of blindness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I have no objection whatsoever with the curiosity about regaining eyesight; rather, I object to the mindsets about the process. These mindsets flag the misperceptions
and low expectations that are what really limit us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Love,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Justin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Ct-nfb [mailto:ct-nfb-bounces@nfbnet.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Blindhands@aol.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 27, 2014 5:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ct-nfb@nfbnet.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ct-nfb] bionic eye<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Well Justin,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">I saw perfectly well for 47 years and poof woke up from surgery in total darkness alive almost 17 years ago. I have been determined that blindness would not get
the best of me and I believe I have lived my life in that way to the fullest and have done things and gone places no blind person might never think of.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">I am not looking for any pitty or any help from people or you, but until we can walk in another one's shoes I don't think any one has the right to make comments
about how someone's opinion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">My husband died 3 weeks ago and we were married for 42 years longer then you have lived. I lost my sight twice, once 16 years ago and again 3 weeks ago. Don't
feel sorry for me as I will get beyond this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">I feel sorry for you that you don't take the time to consider what others feel about their blindness and the folks here are not all in a mess of feelings over their
blindness and for those of you who have recently lost their sight or in the process of loosing their sight I understand their is all levels of feelings both good and bad and if you have a "Blind moment" or "blind day", where you get frustrated or hate that
you can't see or hate that you have to ask for help, I understand and you are welcome to give me a call. 203 378 8928. I will not cry with you or sympathize , but I am a good listener and will encourage you. Don't call Justin as he just doesn't understand
that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Joyce Kane<br>
<a href="http://www.krafterskorner.org/">www.KraftersKorner.org</a><br>
<a href="mailto:Blindhands@AOL.com">Blindhands@AOL.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">In a message dated 4/27/2014 3:22:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
<a href="mailto:PRESIDENT@alumni.ecu.edu">PRESIDENT@alumni.ecu.edu</a> writes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Friends and Colleagues:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I have read the responses on this thread, and I see two distinct categories of responses, as well
as two distinct categories of responders. I will first define the categories of responders as follows. Group 1 is those who have attended and graduated from structured discovery training centers. Group 2 is those who have not. I understand the messages
from the center graduates to address the incorrect, dramatic depiction of blindness as hopelessness, and I understand the messages from the others to yearningly describe the merits of eyesight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">To explain my discontent with the depiction of blindness as hopelessness, I will walk us through
the article and point out where the authors are in error.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h1><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Title:
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">'Bionic eye' offers hope to those with vision loss<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I interrupt immediately to ask what kind of hope I need and what miserable situation I am enduring in order to need
such hope. Back to the article…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">A "bionic eye" may now help blind patients
<a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20140423/FEATURES08/304230072/Bionic-eye-University-of-Michigan" title="http://www.freep.com/article/20140423/FEATURES08/304230072/Bionic-eye-University-of-Michigan">
regain at least a sense of vision</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Linda Schulte, the first patient with the implanted technology since it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration last year, couldn't be more thrilled.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Not long ago, her new "eye" homed in on the stripe on her grandson's T-shirt while he was outside on the driveway at her Ottawa, Ohio, home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">There were flashes of light and movement and — combined with the bounce of a basketball on pavement — the 66-year-old Schulte said she could "see" her grandson for the
first time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"To me, it was seeing him," she said. "I know I'll never see his face, but I could judge how tall he is and everything. I knew where he was moving."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Analysis: The author has chosen a deeply emotional reaction of someone regaining some sight. This reaction can only occur in someone who fixates on the lack of eyesight
as a problem. The person who fixates on the vision loss itself as a problem in life is in a really rough place, and I’m truly grateful that the National Federation of the Blind has helped me escape from that place. If I were still there, I would be fighting
the wrong enemy and make no progress toward the fulfillment I now pursue. I understand that reporters want to strike up emotions and usually harness common misperceptions in society in order to do it, but it inherently reinforces those misperceptions. Back
to the article…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, offered at the University of Michigan's Kellogg Eye Center, was surgically implanted in Schulte's left eye in January.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">It uses a pair of glasses with a small video camera that wirelessly transmits signals to Schulte's implant, converting them into a series of small electrical pulses that
stimulate her retina's remaining cells.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The result: Flashes of light that signal great contrast – the outline of a window or the edges of a white plate against a black tablecloth, for example.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">It takes some practice, but "by using those flashing lights as a cue, (patients) can trace the plate," said Dr. Thiran Jayasundera, a retina surgeon at Kellogg.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">I interrupt to ask how on earth this is useful beyond the tools we now have. Can I not find my plate with my hands? Back to the article…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">He is scheduled to talk about the procedure during a meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Friday in Boston.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The device is used for those who have retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative disease in which patients experience a gradual loss of side vision and night vision, and later
of central vision, which can result in near blindness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Not all of the 100,000 or so people in the U.S. with retinitis pigmentosa can benefit from the bionic eye. An estimated 10,000 have vision low enough, said Dr. Brian Mech,
an executive with Second Sight Medical Products Inc., the Sylmar, Calif.-based company that makes the device. Of those, about 7,500 are eligible for the surgery.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Schulte was 22 when sunlight began to hurt, she said. Over the next two decades, her visual world shrank. She began to lose peripheral vision. And at some point, her tunnel
vision was so tight that, when she looked across the dinner table at her husband, she could see only one of his eyes at a time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">I interrupt to point out that this is exactly what I see when I look across the dinner table at my girlfriend. While the author is hoping that this will pull at heartstrings
again, I can assure you that I do not have any feelings of self-pity or frustration at the fact that I cannot see more of her at one time. If I were to hold these thoughts, I would be stuck in quicksand and never be free to move on with my life. Back to
the article…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">In earlier stages of the clinical trial with the prosthetic retina, many participants were able to locate lights and windows, follow lines in a crosswalk, and avoid running
into things as they walked. About half were able to read letters that were about 9-inches high. Some could sort laundry or determine where other people were located in a room.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Roger Pontz, 55, received his new eye in January as well. He now moves around his Reed City, Mich., home without having to use his hands to avoid running into walls. He
sees figures move in front of him. His wife asked whether he could see her empty oatmeal bowl the other day at a restaurant. He answered by immediately putting his fingers on it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">I interrupt a final time to ask how these tasks cannot be performed by a blind person, with the only exception being the reading of 9-inch letters, a skill of nominal
practical use. Is it really that widely believed that blind people inherently run into things as we walk? Are there no other ways to find crosswalks? Do totally blind people need someone else to sort laundry for them? Are we really at risk of running into
walls in our own home, and is using our hands or a cane inferior techniques? It is obvious that this author believes that nonvisual techniques are indeed inferior to visual ones. Let us finish the article…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Pontz, a dishwasher at a bowling alley, said he is convinced that his training exercises will continue to grow his visual abilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"But if it doesn't, I'm happy with what I've got so far," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Excellent. We conclude with a happy blind person who can smile despite all of the horrors to which
blindness inherently subjects him. He clearly has seen his life improve by acquiring just a little bit of sight. Let us all feel like there is a glimmer of hope for the otherwise hopeless blind.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Does anyone really benefit from what little sight this product currently offers? It encourages people
to use visual techniques for tasks that are still completely possible nonvisually. It encourages people to focus on regaining vision instead of acquiring the proper training for confidence and independence as a blind person. This training will really free
them. Someone who functions visually with this small amount of vision is not going to have the fulfilling life of a center graduate. This article goes back to the status quo where blind people are patients instead of people. Patients have something wrong
with them and must be cured. We know that the real problem of blindness is not the lack of eyesight; it is the lack of understanding and misperceptions which exist in society. This lies at the core of our movement, and it is vital that the leaders at the
core of our movement understand this and not endorse these depictions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Finally, I want to address the argument about seeing children’s faces. We need to understand each
other in order to work together. I do not have children, but I do have basic human ability to reason. If we cannot see our loved ones’ faces and no medical cure for our medical conditions causing blindness currently exist, it is not productive to wish that
we will. My Granddad died in 2003, and I would love to see him again, but I do not fixate on missing him. I cherish the memories of him teaching me about old farm equipment and starting blueberry-throwing fights with all of my cousins, and my grandmother
gave me his wallet when I graduated from college, still including his Blockbuster card and all. I do not long to see him again, at least on this side, because doing so will not improve my quality of life. There is a matter of closure in how some of us deal
with blindness. It is most unfortunate, but some of the low-end rehabilitation programs, such as the Carroll Center for the Blind, actually preach a loss model, where losing vision is a dying. Before the Federation found me, I attended the Carroll Center,
and I was taught to mourn my blindness. Those of us who have fallen victim to these misperceptions suffer because they mourn blindness; they do not suffer from the blindness itself. I remember the days when I mourned blindness and hope that we can all work
toward the day when nobody does.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Sincerely yours,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Justin Salisbury<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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[<a href="mailto:ct-nfb-bounces@nfbnet.org">mailto:ct-nfb-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:Blindhands@aol.com">Blindhands@aol.com</a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 26, 2014 1:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org">ct-nfb@nfbnet.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ct-nfb] bionic eye<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">You want me to put a price on seing my Grand children that I have never seen? or my children that I
haven't seen in almost 17 years? You can not put a price on that, but it would be worth it for me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">I can live without sight and manage well enough. I have traveled near and far[all the way to India],
but to see my family once again, well maybe you don't have children or Grandchildren and can't understand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Joyce Kane<br>
<a href="http://www.krafterskorner.org/" title="http://www.krafterskorner.org/">www.KraftersKorner.org</a><br>
<a href="mailto:Blindhands@AOL.com" title="mailto:Blindhands@AOL.com">Blindhands@AOL.com</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">In a message dated 4/25/2014 10:54:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
<a href="mailto:tattenberg@gmail.com" title="mailto:tattenberg@gmail.com">tattenberg@gmail.com</a> writes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">What if they really hurt and were expensive?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">T<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> Ct-nfb
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Hamit Campos<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 25, 2014 7:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'NFB of Connecticut Mailing List'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ct-nfb] bionic eye<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Yeah. Sure being blind isn’t the end of rthe world, but hell if I had a future chance at new retnas
you best believe I’d take it Why not?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> Ct-nfb
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<b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:Blindhands@aol.com" title="mailto:Blindhands@aol.com">Blindhands@aol.com</a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 25, 2014 10:45 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org" title="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org">ct-nfb@nfbnet.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ct-nfb] bionic eye<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> WowI have nothing wrong with my eyes and I have nothing wrong with my brain. It is the optic nerve,
so I need a new cable wire to connect to the eye and brain. I would do anything almost to see my Grand children, kids and Mom. It is too late to see John, but when I pass over that bridge I will see him and all my doxies and Seeing Eye dog, Corey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Joyce Kane<br>
<a href="http://www.krafterskorner.org/" title="http://www.krafterskorner.org/">www.KraftersKorner.org</a><br>
<a href="mailto:Blindhands@AOL.com" title="mailto:Blindhands@AOL.com">Blindhands@AOL.com</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">In a message dated 4/25/2014 6:52:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
<a href="mailto:hamitcampos@gmail.com" title="mailto:hamitcampos@gmail.com">hamitcampos@gmail.com</a> writes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’d say epic man, but it’s out lines again. Sigh. Oh well, at least they are trying. Man I need need new retnas man. Lol. No but seriously, if they could
do that for some one like me who’s retnas are essentially walls, but for the parts that do work cause I can see lights, that would be just so epic man.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> Ct-nfb
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Elizabeth Rival<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 25, 2014 10:28 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'NFB of Connecticut Mailing List'; <a href="mailto:info@crisradio.org" title="mailto:info@crisradio.org">
info@crisradio.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Ct-nfb] bionic eye<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Subject: 'Bionic eye' offers hope to those with vision loss<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Check out this article from USA TODAY:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">'Bionic eye' offers hope to those with vision loss<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://usat.ly/1igAgoi" title="http://usat.ly/1igAgoi">http://usat.ly/1igAgoi</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Sent from my iPad<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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