FIGHT FOR SIGHT

Today in an online group I am involved with, I had an interesting conversation with someone who is a very independent blind person, who has his own business. I joked about my Husband being a plumber as he fixed our heating last night; he said he knows of a blind man in the UK, who has his own plumbing company. He has sighted plumbers who work with him, but does a lot on his own too. He said that it shows that blind people can do almost anything if they put their minds to it. My response was.

• I agree, but, this is what Doctors, scientists and people giving to charity see. They don't see the very sad people who feel so lost and alone who never go out as they are too afraid, who are living to die, who fall and hurt themselves each day. Who cry almost every hour they are awake, who get by with drink or depression pills and who have people around them who knock them or who only ever see their shopping delivery person once a week, or their meals on wheels if they are old. The people who don't even know when they have a light bulb off. It's OK for independent people but those are the ones who get seen. I feel for those who don't have a voice. I feel for those who visit the Doctor or ophthalmologist thinking they just need new lenses in their glasses or wondering if they indeed need glasses at all, and find out the news, that they are about to lose their sight completely. These people perhaps reading this now need to all fight for their life and rights. Be seen as if we are not seen, we will always be invisible.
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