<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span>What is a 'friend pen', as you mentioned in your suggestions, Joanna?</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506655890096_8490"><span>Mary Ann Lally</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506655890096_8489"><span><br></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, September 27, 2017 11:41 PM, Justin Salisbury via CT-NFB <ct-nfb@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div dir="ltr">Hi Deb,<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I'm glad to hear that you are exploring the possibilities enabled by nonvisual techniques. These will generally be more dependable once you practice them. Anything you learn nonvisually is still useful while you have some residual vision, and the research and collective experience of Blind people indicate that sleepshade training can get you the best results. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I think, if you want to narrow down what kinds of things you want to focus on after looking at general things like cane travel and Braille, it might be best to start with the areas where you are finding yourself struggling. It's hard for many of us to just churn out a list of things to learn, but if you give us certain activities that matter to you, we could probably help even more.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Aloha!<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Justin M. Salisbury, MA, NOMC, NCRTB, NCUEB<br></div><div dir="ltr">Legislative Committee Chair<br></div><div dir="ltr">Honolulu Chapter<br></div><div dir="ltr">National Federation of the Blind of Hawaii<br></div><div dir="ltr">Email: <a href="mailto:President@Alumni.ECU.edu" ymailto="mailto:President@Alumni.ECU.edu">President@Alumni.ECU.edu</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-salisbury" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-salisbury </a> <br></div><div dir="ltr"> <br></div><div dir="ltr">“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">William Butler Yeats<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-----Original Message-----<br></div><div dir="ltr">From: CT-NFB [mailto:<a href="mailto:ct-nfb-bounces@nfbnet.org" ymailto="mailto:ct-nfb-bounces@nfbnet.org">ct-nfb-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>] On Behalf Of stanley torow via CT-NFB<br></div><div dir="ltr">Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2017 10:07 AM<br></div><div dir="ltr">To: NFB of Connecticut Mailing List <<a href="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org" ymailto="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org">ct-nfb@nfbnet.org</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Cc: stanley torow <<a href="mailto:setorow@optonline.net" ymailto="mailto:setorow@optonline.net">setorow@optonline.net</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Subject: Re: [Ct-nfb] Question<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">i have low vision{ still can see , middle vision blurry}, but i thought that the ideas sent to you were great. even though I can see some, still have difficulty with seeing things. thanks to all who send in suggestions. thanks to Joanna, her tips are great, use all of them. i just got stick on lights in my cabinets. helps really good{ if you still have some sight}.<br></div><div dir="ltr">Eileen Torow<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 11:46 AM, jobo15--- via CT-NFB wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">> Hi Deb,<br></div><div dir="ltr">> I have RP so I lost my vision slowly. Here are a few things I did <br></div><div dir="ltr">> while I had some usable vision left :<br></div><div dir="ltr">> 1. Got a cane as soon as I could. It helped me "see" more than I <br></div><div dir="ltr">> really did.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> 2. Streamlined my wardrobe: Black, Navy, gray and denim for skirts and <br></div><div dir="ltr">> pants. Got tops that I could use with any of the bottoms. Also, I <br></div><div dir="ltr">> can't do braille (I'm told I am a scrubber, can't pick up dot 3 and 6) <br></div><div dir="ltr">> So I use safety pins in different combos to tell me colors.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> 3. I streamlined the cleaning products in my house. Each product is in <br></div><div dir="ltr">> a totally different type of container that I can pretty much touch the <br></div><div dir="ltr">> container and know what it is.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> 4. Got a "friend pen" to label my spices. I also found a new app <br></div><div dir="ltr">> called SeeingAI which is free for now. It can find the bar code on <br></div><div dir="ltr">> products and tell me what it is and any cooking directions. It also <br></div><div dir="ltr">> reads documents and short text easily.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> 5. I found the biggest help was to DE clutter while I could (I wasn't <br></div><div dir="ltr">> as good as I should have been with this). Organize as much as you can, <br></div><div dir="ltr">> it will keep you from being frustrated with not seeing like you did <br></div><div dir="ltr">> before.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> 6.When people offer to help, take them up on it. If you keep saying <br></div><div dir="ltr">> no, they will stop offering and we all need help sometimes.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> 7. This is the most important! Be kind to yourself. Find something <br></div><div dir="ltr">> that you can do alone that gives you peace.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> I had the hardest time giving up the last of my vision. It got to the <br></div><div dir="ltr">> point that trying to see took up so much energy that I had no energy <br></div><div dir="ltr">> left to do things. I gave up trying to see and decided to "Walk by <br></div><div dir="ltr">> faith, not by sight".<br></div><div dir="ltr">> I hope this helps.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> Good Luck and God Bless.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> Joanna<br></div><div dir="ltr">> -----Original Message----- From: Deb Reed via CT-NFB<br></div><div dir="ltr">> Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2017 5:59 PM<br></div><div dir="ltr">> To: <a href="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org" ymailto="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org">ct-nfb@nfbnet.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">> Cc: Deb Reed<br></div><div dir="ltr">> Subject: [Ct-nfb] Question<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> Hi Everyone,<br></div><div dir="ltr">> I still have some usable vision, but have recently lost some. What <br></div><div dir="ltr">> things that you use as a blind person, would be advantageous for me to <br></div><div dir="ltr">> learn while I still have some vision? 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