About the Author Travel Companions Why Travel? Mobility Let’s Go For a Walk Vision and Seeing Let Your Ears Be Your Eyes A Computer and You The Final Journey, Part 1 The Final Journey, Part 2 Friends, Neighbors, and Relations: Alternative Sources for Transportation About the Author Charlie Zell was president of the Organization of Macular [Read More]
Category: Patients’ Writings
Essays, poetry, and stories from the low vision community.
Musings on Growing Old
by Dan Roberts I’ve become an absent-minded, decrepit, sleep-deprived, unfit, anti-social, wrinkled image of my former self. For one thing, I’m forgetting words mid-sentence. My listeners usually suggest a few words until either they either lose interest or hit upon a good substitute, at which time I forget what I was talking about anyway. Then [Read More]
Consumed
I understand being consumed by low vision. It is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel when there doesn’t seem to be any light. So now what? I find that, the times I focus on it, I become more scared and more consumed by what I can’t do anymore and what [Read More]
Doomed Dreams
There I am, running on a field Touching three bases and arriving home Hearing the fans celebrate And the singing truck giving away ice cream cones My family and friends smiling at their All-star, so very proud After nine innings, I head to Buck Boone Road Things like this, I could never give up There [Read More]
I Walked a Mile With Vision
(Contributed by Gary Hunter) I walked a mile with Vision She chattered all the way But left me none the wiser For what she had to say. I walked a mile with Blindness Though not a word said she But the things I learned from Blindness When Blindness walked with me.