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.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Garden

Yesterday we planted vegetable seeds in the big community garden behind the center. OK first of all I have a "brown" thumb so we'll see if anything I planted actually grows. Second of all...I really wanted to be able to see what was around me and what I was doing. Blindfolds really bug me at times like these. I was in the center of the garden learning to feel where to put the seeds by the irrigation line based on where the tiny wet spots were. Even with sight it would be a valuable thing to be able to do.
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