Emotional Spirals

My name is Emma, my blindness occurred four years ago. I went to the doctor in November, found out, I went blind in March. I didn't have time for preparation. I had been around maybe just a couple of blind people in my life. I didn't know the challenges they had, but then when it hit me smack in the face, it was totally different.

I was a teacher, and I loved to travel, seeing things, writing down things, sending memos out to people, sending cards out to people. All of a sudden I went blind. I couldn't even write my own name. It's just a mess. And people are saying, “It's all right.” And that still encourages me, saying, “It's all right, Emma. Even if you didn't write your name on the line, you wrote your name, you're still progressing.”

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