Well
not a good start to Hubs work week? His
lap top yet again, has decided to rebelle against being back in the cold UK.
Every time he takes it to the engineers at work, to be so called up dated,
something goes wrong and it is a total nightmare for someone who has deadlines
to meet!
So
now he has to take it into the office in London, will they be able to fix what
they have broken? Or will they do the usual and say to leave it with them and
they will deliver it to him by post a week
later?
Really,
it is stressful enough for him as it is, without this rubbish? Luckily, he has
his desk top and thank God, I kept the
internet code on Dictaphone, as it for some reason asked for it when he turned
the computer on.
I
guess I have my uses? Ha.
Teen
too, as it is his voice reading it out from a letter we received.
A Dictaphone
next to the phone is an item I could not be without. When I lost my sight,
people would phone me with phone numbers,
meetings and times as well as addresses, and I never knew how to think about
taking that information down. Something which comes so easy to me now, I mean
if not for my recorder, I would write it down on my laptop, but in those early
dark depressing days of absolute devastation, I could not think streight about
anything and I had work / jobs to do, as I used to give talks to various organizations.
I
was reading a tweet today by one of my Hubs colleagues/friend from work. A
wonderful person, really truly inspirational. Someone who is sighted, but has a
real passion for helping blind people when it comes to technology. It’s people
like him who the RNIB, needs. A real life person, not just someone who is going
through the motions of a job, but someone who feels the need and wishes to do something to help. Let’s
hope this person has a long career as we need him? On his twitter I found an
interesting link
This
man is American I think and has been
blind since birth. He shows videos of himself talking in a fun and not boring
way, about what it is like to be blind, he talks of his fears as a blind person
and things like what colours are / mean to him.
It
is really interesting. He also talks about how he likes to be guided. He talks
like my Hub, not voice, just in the same words, like I never understood about
the colour thing, as I was fortunate to be able to see when young and remember
most colours, though now the so called new colours, I am a little, well, how to
say in correct English?
Stuffed?
Ha.
Since
I have met Hub, I have had to learn a new world, a true blind world. I am now
without sight, but I once could see a
little, so can not really talk for those who have been blind all of their
lives. It really is a different world though.
Hub
thinks it is harder to have seen then for it to be taken from you? I know he is
so much more confident than me.
We
have odd conversations about if there was treatment to make us see, only one of
us could have it, I would give it to him, as he will be given the chance to see
what I could? He says me as you don’t always miss what you have never had,
though, he would so benefit being able to see, but it would take a good year,
to train his brain, what to see, as we know, it is the brain which sees, not
the eyes. They are your windows.
Or
camera lens.
I
really really hope to see again in my lifetime. Hub is quite negative about it
and does not think it will happen. Oh God, I really hope he is wrong?
I’m
bored stiff with this blooming gloomy life.
Oh,
latest on Guide dogs? Some man is coming out on Wednesday to walk with me to
the shop.
It
will be interesting to see how he is, I hope he will be able to give me a tip
or two on how to get Waggatail past the park where the dogs are playing with
footballs, and the school, where the children are playing with footballs?
He
sounded about 22, so perhaps a student, but they are the best, though lacking
in experience, they gain in wanting to impress and don’t suffer from
complacency.
Bless
you all my dear loyal Bloggets and thank you for reading. xx
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