[NFB-Seniors-Discussion] Question for the list

[Patricia Maddix]

There was a gentleman in our support group who had a stroke and lost his site overnight. He struggled extremely with these emotions and was greatly helped by the low vision rehabilitation counselor at the hospital who also used to facilitate our group. He attended our group for several years and became quite well adjusted two vision loss learning to use an iPhone with voiceover, running a business with his son, and got a guide dog. A couple of times he also rented a house in a small village in Mexico and with assistance from his son at the beginning of the trip learned his way around town and ended up staying there alone for several months and he also travel to some other foreign countries. I think it was after about five or six years he started to get his vision back slowly and eventually is now able to Drive a car and his guy dog is now his pet and best friend. He did not have any medical treatment but apparently   our support group was never able to convince him to come back for a visit. He said he felt so guilty that his vision returned and the rest of the people in the group continued to have more vision loss. We were so happy for him.
Patricia so it just returned on its own.

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> On Mar 20, 2021, at 9:44 PM, Lauren Merryfield via NFB-Seniors-Discussion <nfb-seniors-discussion at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> I have heard of blind people being healed but I’ve never met any. I don’t know if the “healing” lasts only as long as the “revival service”--healing meeting, or if it is permanent.
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> I’ve heard of people getting much vision back after thick cataracts have been removed or other surgeries have been successfully performed.
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> I’ve heard much more often (and know some blind people) who have surgery after surgery as they slowly or quickly go blinder and blinder. They’re constantly hoping that one surgery will bring them enough sight to read print again or to become nonblind and drive a car. They have such a hard time coming to terms with being permanently blind, believing, as long as they continue having multiple surgeries, (as the ophthalmologist earns tons more money), that sometime everything will be okay.
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> There was a kid at the school for the blind who was blind in one eye and had surgery on the other, who ended up being (someone else’s) cab driver.
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> There was another person I knew of who attended his first  NFB convention, using a cane, listening for which corner the bar was in and learning his way over there too well.
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> Later that evening, he laid his cane down, insisting he could find the bar without it as he yelled out “I can see! I can see!”
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> Others in the room urged him not to find the bar again that night.
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> We quite often hear about someone “going blind”, however, we never hear that a blind guy has “gone sighted.”
> Blessings,
> Lauren
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> “He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”
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> From: NFB-Seniors-Discussion <nfb-seniors-discussion-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of RobertLeslie Newman via NFB-Seniors-Discussion
> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2021 2:51 PM
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> Cc: robertleslienewman at gmail.com
> Subject: [NFB-Seniors-Discussion] Question for the list
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> Hi You all
>  
> This coming Wednesday will be our second informational conference for 2021. I’m wonder if there is a topic that you feel needs to be addressed! Do you think there are any topics that never seem to get tackled. I’d love to see if any of us has either a great everyday issue out there that has… just seemed to be overlooked? Or, a problem topic that some people are generally too embarrassed to speak of?
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> What do you think?
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> Here is one of mine: Background first- I have been blind for 57 years, and during all that time I’ve never met nor hear of some one who was… cured of their blindness, via fate of a higher being, nor by magic, or whatever. And in  bringing this up, I mean no disrespect to anyone. Has it happened in our lifetime? Is there anything written or other wise recorded to give us any clue to the truth of it?
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> Respectfully yours,
> Robert Leslie Newman
> NFBN Senior Division, President
> NFB Seniors Division, Second Vice President
> NFBN Omaha Chapter, Secretary
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