Good day Bloggets. I’m off to a neighbourhood watch meeting
next week. I told them I would only go if I could be chief look out. Haha. They
agreed. Gosh it’s so very windy here today. I’m not going out, I was going to
meet with a friend, but not on your Nelly I am going out in that. Especially when
I have to be so close to a nasty road and one slight move to the left going and
right coming back, I’m on the road. And from past experience, I know cars will
not slow down, even if I am on the road with my guide dog. Thankfully Wagga has
improved and does kind of stop now at kerbs. But most of the time I have to
tell her to do so. So, I need to know where the kerb is and if it’s windy, it’s
so hard to hear where I’m going.
Same if it’s raining. The roads sound so much noisier and
sometimes cars seem closer.
My friend called me today to ask if I wanted to go with her
next year to see Rod Stewart… Well if it was fifteen years ago may be, but to
be honest now he is needing to just sing along to his own CD.
In his own sitting room!
On his own!
He’s 73 now and in his time was great, but not anymore. These
people just don’t know when to stop. I mean, people like Tom Jones, wow, well
he was pure brilliant, so now he is great. Where as if you are great, you end
up not so great.
Rod if you are reading this. Hahaha. You will always be
remembered as you were. Great song title don’t you think?
Leading on nicely to my next subject. I was reading about an
ancient watermill today. A new study of chemical deposits, at the old Roman
watermill Barbital in southern France. They have found that it was in use only
half of the year. Having late summer and Autumn off. So, what did the workers
do the other half of the year? Possibly fished?
Or visited the Circus’s. Smile.
Something else I was reading about is plants communicate
stress using their own kind of nervous system. When a leave gets damaged or
eaten, it warns other leaves by using the same signals as used by animals. Animal
nerve cells talk to each other with the aid of an amino acid.
I know there was a
plant in the summer I pulled hard as it was tough and I needed to get rid of
the leaf. It was really damaged. I swear it screamed. I felt so bad. So guilty.
Since then I made it fast and cut with scissors. But now I have read this, oh,
gosh, shall I just leave or leaf, haha, the dead leaves on? But then will they
not send signals to the other leaves to say they are dead? Why shouldn’t plants
have feelings, I mean, they grow, they have life. that is why when a plant
looks dead, we say it’s dead, because normally it stops growing. So, if it has
life, of course it’s going to have feelings.
BW has just gone to the gym. I’m so pleased he has so much
energy to do so. I guess he is young. I had loads of energy until I gave birth
then it all seemed to get eaten up.
I do believe that if you have either poor vision or no
vision, you do get more tired. Nothing is easy for us, is it.
Leading me onto some news about blindness. You can imagine
my face when I read the headline (Day blind sheep CURED. by gene therapy)
“For those wondering why I put a full stop after cured, it’s
because those who use screen readers won’t know I have put the word cured in
bold.
Cured we never see cured, do we? So, I had to look into it. Here
is what I found
Back in 2009 a group of Israelis
researchers identified a herd of sheep suffering from day
blindness. So, not my eye disease, but still interested for those of you who
don’t have RP but still have poor vision.
The eye condition they have is more prominent between
families who marry into their own family…
In Jerusalem 1 in 5000 people have day blindness.
So now in the US they are treating people with achromatopsia.
Six years ago the sheep that were injected with one gene therapy still can see.
That is amazing, why can’t it be so easy for us RP’s?
Knowledge of treating under the retina is becoming more common.
This is good news for us. Keep going please.
OK off now to cook dinner for the boys. Until later, keep
positive and don’t let them knock us down. If we do fall, get up quick, brush
yourself down and walk forwards, never backwards. X
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