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I Believe
I have faith and I am a very spiritual person. Organized religion is very hard for me. Having lived with people who look at me and my disability with the moral model, I’ve sinned or my parents have sinned. Its very hard to believe in a system of spirituality that condones and practices intolerance. To […]
Understanding Nystagmus
Understanding Nystagmus Richard L. Windsor, O.D., F.A.A.O. Laura K. Windsor, O.D., F.A.A.O. Published in Vision Enhancement Journal Nystagmus is an involuntary rhythmic shaking or wobbling of the eyes. The term nystagmus is derived from the Greek word, “nmstagmos”, which was used to describe the wobbly head movements of a sleepy or inebriated individual. Nystagmus has […]
60 Degrees West & 15 Degrees North
These are the coordinates to my favorite beach. Not really they are the misalignments of my eyes. Recently I had this really cool eye appointment at the hospital. My eyes are so misaligned currently they can refract me for new glasses. My options are, surgery. I’ve had Strabismus surgery before, the most single painful incident […]
Curiosity and Ignorance
I believe its human nature to be curios about each others story. What do they do? Why do they…? Often when I’m out and about I look at a home and wonder what is the story of the people that live there. Its easy to imagine on a cold wintery night on the highway seeing […]
Fear
I am having Strabismus surgery in March, and I’m afraid. When I wrote about the eye appointment to measure my eye alignment, misalignment, angles I wasn’t totally honest. It was a very cool appointment but it hurt and it hurt a lot. I had the prospect of repeating the appointment and all the tests but thankfully […]
PhotoVoice
I was surfing the news on the internet the other day and came across the following news article on the BBC news website. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8466714.stm There is an organization “Photovice” out of the UK that gives blind and legally blind cameras and teaches them how to take pictures. Some of these pictures are amazing!!! http://www.photovoice.org/ I […]
BlindMan Update
I’m still here. I’ve realized with age and experience that I have a definite throughput of life or there are so many things I can do at once. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve written a post a lot has happened. I’ve changed jobs. Thank goodness. Never take a job where they are hiring […]
Alberta Health Care
I’m spoiled, I’m concerned, I’m surprised. During my life in Canada and the US with my eye condition I’ve enjoyed the attention of an Ophthalmologist. Even for mundane things like new glasses. I’ve just moved back to Calgary, Alberta and the health care system here is in a state. A state of what I’m not […]
Podcasting
I found out a short while ago that my podcasts have an audience. I’ve struggled with podcasting as I write the blog posts first. I’ve been rightly so accused of sounding like I’m reading the blog posts. I am. I am still working on the performance of the written blog post. The one tip I […]
Optometrist
Recently I’ve had to find an optometrist to refract me for new glasses. Fine. I tried my ophthalmologist no luck. I called my surgeon, the one who did my strabismus surgery, he maintains a list of optometrists. I tired one. I have to admit I was very leery but all in all the optometrist turned […]
