Re: Just so you know


> A close family member is going blind, and my grandfather
> lost his sight
> because of diabetes. My uncle was very deaf, my friend is
> deaf in one
> ear and I worked for a short time with deaf children. So I
> am respectful of the reality of this for you. Either would
> be a tragedy. There are is no compensation for either. But
> if you were blind, you could still listen to music and
> enjoy conversation and good food and drink - and boinks -
> and listen to hockey on satellite radio. Technology exists
> to help blind people use computers. Deafness would make no
> difference to your enjoyment of good books, visiting the
> Lake District, and watching hockey and good food and drink
> and more boinks - with the added bonus of not affecting
> your ability to enjoy uklc,(!) and not depriving your
> friends of your presence here or at boinks.
>
> Jp

All very inspiring but somehow I doubt the reality of the
situation would be so nice. I suspect that if the eyes or ears
go, there would also be other major organ failures and
circulation failures and surgeries and just general yuckiness.

It's a relentless decline, not one that stops when something
fails.

Johnny-more-realistic
.

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