by Dan Roberts What’s so funny about low vision? Nothing really, but some humor can come from living with it. You know, those gaffes and missteps which may not be funny to anyone who hasn’t lived with visual impairment, but which can make us grin when we realize we’re not the only ones who commit [Read More]
Category: Patients’ Writings
Essays, poetry, and stories from the low vision community.
Our Amazing Eyes
Eyes are thought to have first developed in animals, in a very basic form, around 550 million years ago. Since then, they have become the second most complex organ after the brain. We hear all the time about the wonderful ways our brains work for us, but our peepers sometimes don’t get the respect they [Read More]
Travels With Charlie
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]
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]