Sight Loss: Robert Thompson lives with significant sight loss and here, he describes how he handled the diagnosis and learned to live again...
LIFE IS A journey, or more correctly – a series of journeys, as life phases come and go. Some are enjoyable but others, well, we would choose to avoid them if we had the choice. One such journey for me has been that of learning to live with the loss of sight.
The transition from those early dark days is described in some detail in a book I have written entitled ‘Insights into an Unsighted World’, referenced later in this article. The symptoms and levels of sight vary between different eye conditions – take macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa, for example. The former can cause central vision loss, while the latter can cause visual issues in low-light situations.
In public, many VIPs will be recognisable by a guide dog or the use of a white cane, of which there are two types, symbol cane and long cane. Less known to the public, the symbol cane is used to convey low vision or the need of assistance in certain situations. The more frequently seen long cane is used in contact with the ground so the user can navigate their way along. This conveys anything ranging from quite significant to total sight loss.
Are there some tips? NCBI has produced a short video to help with public understanding of sight loss and my book gives a much wider understanding than can be included here. But here are a few basic thoughts:
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