[bksvol-discuss] Re: Wife as aide
- From: <vining@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:41:52 -0800
Oh, Kelly! Your poor mom! This makes me hurt just to read about it. And
that's funny, because my partner worries about the same... that if I have
odd bruises, or because I'm naturally quiet around other people, the
impression might be that I'm being abused! LOL
I think many of my worst mishaps happened during the transition of losing my
sight; I suppose I was still operating as though I expected to see more than
I actually could. I have no vision now, but I still walk too quickly (too
quickly by other people's standards, I guess. I don't find it to be a
problem. *grin* One reason why a dog is probably better for me than a cane.)
Joanie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kellie Hartmann" <hart0421@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 8:13 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wife as aide
> Joanie,
> Life definitely isn't fair. <lol> When crazy things like this happen to my
> sighted friends I usually tell them, "I'm blind--what's your excuse?"
<lol>
> A couple summers ago my mom, who is fully sighted, was outside when she
> heard the phone ringing. She whipped around and launched... right into an
> oak tree. She actually cracked her cheekbone right below her eye. Of
course
> it turned a myriad of undesirable colors and hurt like crazy for a month.
> Despite that, I think the real victim of all this was her poor husband.
> Whenever they went anywhere, people gave him dirty looks and were rude to
> him because they thought he'd beaten her. Finally he pretty much refused
to
> go places with her until it healed up. <lol> My mom thought the whole
thing
> was pretty funny and stupid despite the pain and the silly questions and
> jokes.
> The only time I remember running into a tree I was on rollerblades, and
the
> worst result was that I got a bunch of pine sap stuck in my hair. It
wasn't
> a head-on collision--I veered off the driveway I was skating on, despite
the
> fact that I was using my cane to follow the edge, and sideswiped the tree.
> Kellie
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