suggestions for friends & families of the sight impaired individual (sii)

July 31st, 2008 by Christine

Changes in daily routine may be necessary in helping someone who is experiencing vision loss.  Allow the SII new ways to control his/her environment to regain independence.  Everyone involved will encounter a period of trial and error.  Approach each situation with a sense of humor and willingness to change.
Consider the following:

Warn the SII that you [...]


last holiday before the hit

July 31st, 2008 by Christine

School starts in a few weeks so I’ve been swamped with all sorts of preparation, e.g. ordering books, OM training, learning how to use JAWS (screen reader), and all the other miscellaneous tasks that I wanted to get done before I fully concentrate on school like cleaning and organizing my files, desks, house.  Everything takes [...]


ich bein ein von schlitterbahn

July 24th, 2008 by Christine

I know my german doesn’t make sense but those are the only words I know in German besides “pretzel”, “sauerkraut”, “weinerschnitzel”, and “biergarten”. And I don’t even know if I spelled those right. Mad props to anyone that can tell me how to say “I go to Schlitterbahn” in proper German and also [...]


i heart the geek

July 11th, 2008 by Christine

Tonight my boyfriend went to Video Games Live, a concert for dorks.  It’s a traveling symphony that plays soundtracks from all sorts of video games while the video game is airing on a big screen.  There were video game competitions prior to the concert itself, e.g. the winning scorer of Guitar Hero got to play [...]


your dx, please

July 9th, 2008 by Christine

On the back of my right arm near the elbow is a colony of strange bumps. They appeared uninvited and reproduced over the past month and is now about 2 in. x 1 in. big. I’m told it’s practically invisible to the naked eye but since I can’t see and only feel the [...]


Next Page »