[nfb-db] nfb-db Digest, Adjusting and A Few Questions

[April Brown]

I am sorry I haven't responded.  It isn't easy for me to figure out how to
respond easily.  

 

heather albright - That is a great idea.  My regular doctor finally
developed an online system a year ago.  The specialists don't appear to have
one.  I think I need to request one.  Though I generally get blank stares
when I request anything.

 

Marsha Drenth-  I've always ignored my hearing loss.  As long sight, that
was what mattered.  Now, with my sight undependeable, it's not easy.  One
thing that often isn't covered, is denial is as much about those around us,
as ourselves.  As a society, we're so set on everyone being the same, and if
you aren't, you almost don't exist.  It's as if people are scared to admit
that someone can live differently than they do.  Some days, those around us
deny our needs to meet theirs, and it's sad.  I would rather lose my hearing
than my eye.  I think my vision will be gone first though.  With all my
other disabilities, it's not easy.  I keep going as best I can.  Some days,
it feels as if my eye is filling in for me, even though I'm not really
seeing.  As if that makes any sense.

 

DELCINA M BROWN - I'm hoping to get the specialists to work through emails.
It would help.  I will keep posting, and reading every day.  I don't want to
ask questions that have been answered hundreds of times.  I still have a
little time, though how much, I can't guarantee.  I have set a date to start
seriously learning Braille though, so I can eventually learn refreshable
Braille.

Catherine Miller-  Thanks!  I think I need a stronger advocate than my
husband.  He sits there and trusts every word they say.  He's been in the
military too long.  He lets them brush it off, and disappear as if that's
normal.  Twice now, a specialist has said what they had to say, and been
gone from the room before I had even figured out the first sentence they
said.  I hear blind people complain about people speaking slower and louder
to them, and yet, that's often just what I need to be able to comprehend
people, especially males with low voices.  He says I don't respond fast
enough.  And yet, I can't respond till I fully hear it.  Listening to most
people talk is like listening to a VHS tape played at double speed.  I can
never catch up!  That's why I spend more time online.  I can think, process,
and then reply.

I do not look forward to the day I have to learn how to use only keyboard
commands to use a computer.  As often as weird things show up as I type now,
that will be a disaster.  I will have to keep writing and publishing though.

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

 

 

April Brown

 

Writing dramatic adventure novels uncovering the myths we hide behind.

 



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