Re: remembering my first experiences with the Optacon

  • From: "Mary Emerson" <maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 10:37:43 -0700

Don,

Before Rehab bought my first optacon, I had a loaner machine which was in 
one of those wooden cases. I loved that case; I think it was much better 
made than the soft packs. In fact, all my soft packs have foam that has 
dried out and gotten all over the inside of the soft pack. If TSI had stuck 
with the wooden cases, perhaps with rounded edges, I think the optacon would 
be much better protected.

My training was done with an instructor, one on one, and part of it took 
place at my parents' cabin in the mountains. One thing I used my optacon to 
do after completing the training was to sort the family's mail every day, 
until I had to go back to computer school and read homework assignments. 
Sorting the mail was fun, because it didn't take much effort, and most of it 
involved reading envelope addresses, which didn't take long.

I also enjoyed looking at my college textbooks, especially the ones I never 
had time to read in college. I found out that one of them wasn't what I 
thought it was; instead, it was the title of a book that another student was 
purchasing, and I thought it was one of my books, that had been put on his 
pile instead of mine. After discovering, five years later,  it was really 
his book that I had taken, I realized why he left briefly while we were 
still in the book store; he left to get another copy, because I had taken 
his book without realizing it. I hope he wasn't mad at me for making that 
mistake
Mary Emerson
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