[il-talk] Fw: Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

[Lin H.]

Thanks for understanding Glenn.  I didn't mean to offend anyone by 
forwarding this news item.    I am accepting my blindness and trying to live 
my life blind, but, in the back of my head, I still miss seeing my husband's 
face and lot of other things in my surroundings!  Again, I didn't mean to 
offend anyone!  I just it thought  was an interesting piece of info. 
Sincerely, Linda

-----Original Message----- 
From: Glenn III via il-talk
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 8:47 PM
To: Robert Hansen ; NFB of Illinois Mailing List
Subject: Re: [il-talk] Fw: Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

I wish I could have viewed the video, but couldn't get through the "200
second" long leading advertisement. so I'll adleb. I don't think the eye
surgeries is the point. I don't begrudge anyone who receives a treatment
which restores their sight. The topic of what eye conditions a person has
or what treatments etc. really comes up pretty rarely--in fact, that
generally is more the case in meetings of sighted organizations who focus
on subjects around blindness. This may be because, I believe, we don't
limit our focus on blindness itself, but on life, at it's best, despite and
in sync with blindness, and that blindness is not a strange condition to
poke and prod at, but just one of many aspects of a normal, and whole life.
The point is, that I don't think that some treatment that may reverse a
condition causing blindness for some is any problem, but the problems we
focus on are how to secure rights, quality of experiences, and the highest
fulfillment of life with blindness, whenever it is someone's reality--plus
to show that it is also society's reality a reality to have blind people in
it, in a meaningful way. If a treatment for some comes about, cool, but
what we should focus on is that if a treatment is promoted, it should not
be ignoring that there may be huge cost or risk simply because of a
distorted or fearful apprehension about the alternative of being blind, and
that regardless if someone will or won't become blind or remain blind for a
decade, or a day, every moment, everywhere a blind person lives, there's no
excuse for not experiencing, equality, fulfillment, purpose, and value
within society, while being blind.

-Glenn III


On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Robert Hansen via il-talk <
il-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> I am not sure what I think of these eye surgery things anymore. Here we
> are doing what we can to change what it means to be blindlow vision and
> these doctors keep doing this stuff and it ruins it for our movement.
>
> On 10/13/2014 9:48 AM, Lin H. via il-talk wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Debbie Navarrete
>> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 11:26 PM
>> To: Linda Hendle
>> Subject: Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com
>>
>> http://www.cnn.com/video/standard.html?/video/tech/
>> 2014/10/09/pkg-blind-man-sees-for-first-time-in-33-years.
>> duke-medicine&sr=fb101214pkg-blind-man-sees-for-first-time-
>> in-33-years9pVODlink&video_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fm.
>> facebook.com%2Fl.php%3Fu%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fcnn.it%
>> 252F1qgcG0e%26h%3DEAQEBeRRH%26enc%3DAZPL17ryweqCZMlWq8nAnEWMyyMn
>> iplSG4bkKFLIM1iWdr53Yajfn6bnmKeNYxlWiTJhLVA4GcGceWtYL6_Olxc8
>>
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