[stylist] To ponder- taken to another level

[Anita Ogletree]

Bridgit,
Yes, when I am going places like my doctor's office and I am 
familiar with the layout, I use so cane.  But there are times 
when I may be moving through my own house and I generally know 
where everything is in each room; however, there is the chance 
that if a little one has moved a chair that I might bump into it.
Or those times when someone gets up from the table and doesn't 
push their chair all the way under it.  There was this coffee 
table in my mom's house that was made of a sturdz wood that was 
heavy.  I knew exactly where the table was in the living room and 
I deliberately try to walk around it.  But somehow my shin would 
make contact with the corner of that table.
And I truly think that because I have light perception and can 
see objects that sometimes I become a little disoriented.  I have 
tried explaining this to other people and no one seems to really 
understand.  The lighting in the room and perhaps the shadows 
from the furniture or something seems to come together and I can 
end up veering too far left or right instead of walking straight.  
That happens especially when I am traveling outside or in wide 
open spaces like a large room.  I don't know.  It's kinda whacky.

Anita

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: Bridgit Pollpeter <bpollpeter at hotmail.com
>To: <stylist at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:31:34 -0600
>Subject: [stylist] To ponder- taken to another level

>Anita,

>Do you use a white cane? Not that you won't still run into 
things, but
>if using a cane, or dog for that matter, and using properly, you 
are
>less likely to run into things, at least with your body.

>Sincerely,
>Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter, editor, Slate & Style
>Read my blog at:
>http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/

>"If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can
>satisfy, we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for
>another world."
>C.  S.  Lewis

>Message: 24
>Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 20:56:17 -0500
>From: Anita Ogletree <yrstrli at gmail.com
>To: Writer's Division Mailing List <stylist at nfbnet.org
>Subject: Re: [stylist] Quote to ponder - taken to another level
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>Well I will have to say that I have had a dream or two where I
>flew and I went blind around 2 years old from what was believed
>to have been Encephalitis.  This disease destroyed the optic
>ner"e.  I learned a few yeins ajo that the optic nerve is designf
>to take images and transmit them to the cornea I think?
>I may be off on this but I understand why it is that I can detect
>objects in a room--the furniture, wh's on a wabbl, lights, but I
>cannot figure out how big the objects are or tell what they are
>with that same vision.  Sometimes the objects appear to be closer
>at times when they are farther away and vice versa.  And it can
>also be very distracting when attempting to travel independently.
>Of coursethereare times when I miss objects and bump into them.
>(Yikes! That happens with people as well." (smiles)

>Anita


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