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I must confess to being fairly ambivalent about the plight of blind folk till I joined their ranks. Sure, they were around, but - as for most people - not really part of my world. I was happy to give a few dollars of conscience money on appeal days just as I did with all the other causes that didn’t
Like most folk I always regarded walking from A to B as a fairly mundane but pleasant way of getting around, until recently. Now, sadly it’s a combination of challenge, risk and bloody nuisance, brought about by sight loss and relocating to Auckland.
Sight loss, I discovered, is such a gradual process that it’s generally detected by others before the victims themselves.Certainly, the indications I had came at me, rather suddenly. I was sitting
