Re: Block Quote, on or off

  • From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 15:45:26 -0800

Bill,
Thanks for your kind words, but I don't think my understanding is so 
exceptional.  Since becoming legally blind, I've studied what I've been able 
to about retinal function and retinal degeneration, so that I have a working 
vocabulary of the visual process and the cellular and electrochemical 
specifics that support it.  Also, I know my visual fields and understand why 
gaps have appeared in my vision as they have because I've had the Goldmann 
Visual Fields test performed on me several times over the past ten years at 
the Jules Stein eye Institute here at UCLA.  It's through educating myself 
that I've learned to understand and be better able to describe all this. 
Anyone could do the same, and I recommend making the effort.
Daniel
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Powers" <powersradio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: Block Quote, on or off


Daniel,

A friend of mine sent me a "picture" about a year ago resembling what he
"sees" with his particular diatetic retinopathy infirmity, it was a picture
doted with all kinds of black splotches and opaque splotches carving out
particular parts of an otherwise wide view. I've also seen other "pictures"
where views had lurred-out areas that make the whole picture almost
unviewable. So I can imagine any number of variables of how people might
have vision and yet not see. It certainly is a reminder to me, just as your
posts are, how challenging the low-vision arena really is, how we can't take
for granted what we have, and how we have to understand others' challenges
that might be much greater than our own. At least you have a very good grasp
of what you can and can't see. Many "sighted" people simply can't figure out
what their sight problems are and/or don't pay attention to what they see
let alone find ways to cope with it, so at least you are doing all you can
with what you have.

Bill

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