[optacon-l] Re: Sight Versus Blindness
- From: "Carolyn Arnold" <4carolyna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:03:49 -0400
Pretty good, Rose about the memory - shared that with my sighted husband. He
got a big laugh.
GIFT (God is forever true),
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 12:18 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Sight Versus Blindness
>I was in the hospital for ten days in 1989. Window could be looked out but
> not opened. When I got outside my first thought was good, the birds
> really
> did not go away. Considering I could not hear at all out of one ear at
> that
> time made the birds and the breeze that much more amazing to me at that
> moment.
>
> Having been after surgery totally deaf on one side, and now with a fairly
> about 60% loss in the left ear makes me think that being deaf would be the
> almost ultimate in disability right next to paraplegia
>
> Rose Combs
> rosecombs@xxxxx
> A picture may be worth a thousand words but it takes up three times the
> memory!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Carrie Green
> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 12:51 PM
> To: Optacon List
> Subject: [optacon-l] Sight Versus Blindness
>
> To throw my two cents in, I am perfectly content being totally blind. I
> did
> have sight for about three and a half years of my life, and lost my sight
> due to cancer. I don't miss it. What I'd really like to see change, is
> people's attitudes towards blindness. The oh mighty sighted try and make
> us
> feel as though we are missing something, but in actuality we aren't. Just
> think of all the experiences we have, they don't know anything about. Most
> sighted folks don't hear birdsong, smell amazing smells, never feel items
> for tactile pleasure, and if they can't see it, well, then it's just not
> that important, and they just can't comprehend how we can manage without
> vision. My question for them is, "How do you manage with sight?" I have
> little contact with other blind people in my daily life, so perhaps my
> view
> is skewed.
> Cheers,
>
> Carrie
>
>
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