I am using this blogging site to keep friends and family informed about my life for the next 7 months or so of blindness training at the Colorado Center for the Blind. I have Usher's syndrome which results in hearing loss and progressive vision loss. Now the state of Colorado is paying for me to go through an extensive training program. There will be lots of challenges ahead for me and I am both apprehensive and excited!!!! The training consist of being blindfolded 8 hours a day 5 days a week and learning how to function completely without sight.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Another day of training

I ate moldy bread today. I couldn't look to see what was wrong with it so I just kept eating. Finally I took off my sleep shades to find white mold all over it. Uggg!!! Didn't suffer ill effects except for the cheating part. oops! In one of our classes we practiced ironing without sight. Had to learn techniques for finding the iron without flat out touching it. You just run your hand slowly along the ironing board and when you bump the iron you follow the iron to the cord which tells you which side to grab. I wasn't too nervous about it since I've ironed with sight but my classmate was not really happy about this exercise. He was also a male...and what male has ever ironed before? :-)

I had to get a new cane b/c mine was bent. Had some serious curvature in it and was really messing with my rhythm. Also snowed today which made getting to classes hard this morning. Snow is hard to feel the ground through.
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