What Will Tomorrow Hold For You?

True words. Sorry for the adjustments forced upon you. Am glad you are showing the creative woman that I thought I felt through you being my friend. Think of Helen Keller and the things she did with the double affect she had. You will do fine and it will be a chance to grow. There may be someone that you will touch that may not be doing as well as you and it will give them hope or save them. We never know who we touch as we sometimes struggle through our lives. My heart goes out to you. Wishing you peace amidst all this.

Very well said villageanne...I'm so sorry about your condition. But you are being very brave yourself. You have prepared yourself well mentally, to accept this change. Don't lose heart. It is so true, I too wonder what our pioneers did...maybe 'ignorance' was their bliss. We often take these facilities for granted and hardly appreciate them. If only we could think how people lived earlier, we might thank God for small mercies.

First let me say, I am sorry that you are loosing your vision. I think that is one of my worst fears of loosing when it comes to my senses. I value my vision too much and I too have very bad vision.
I have tunnel vision when I get certain migraines and it annoys me to no end. I can not imagine what it would be like for you knowing that it will not get any better. For that, my heart goes out to you!!!

As for the pioneers. I like to think that not only did they have to be tough and strong...but they also had to have a tremendous amount of love!
To stay warm, brothers and sisters huddle together for body heat. Children and partners slept together to keep each other warm through the night...while dad would get up to brave the cold to put more fire on the stack!
How much closer they must have been back then to sit and listen to each others woes and fears. But also give support and love in return.
Sure, I do not doubt that they had it much rougher than we do these days...but I also think about how much better they had it than we do now also.

My daughter and I talked about this when we had the ice storm that knocked out over 100,000 people in Oklahoma. We both thought how it would be cool that the family would be nice to each other hugging and cuddling to stay warm. Even though it would suck to be that cold...it would force everyone off the computer, game, and etc. to come together and talk and keep each other warm and amused.

So, I guess it all depends on how you look at it....to any situation.

What a tremendous will power and attitude you have "I will not give in." and a spectacular example of encouragement for others - if you give up the battle is over and you have lost. Another discussion on mylot is about positive thinking and I do believe it has an huge effect on your life.

I often think how easy we have it today compared to our ancestors. Particularly when people start complaining about the stupidest of things. I like to stop and smell the roses as they say and to do my best to get others to see what greatness we do have available to us.

I really think you should contact a school for the blind. They can help in sooo many ways. They can teach you proven methods to live your life to its fullest even if this horrible thing does happen. I do understand your fear however as it my greatest fear to go blind. I have no real problems with my eyes however its just a "what if" thing. Good luck to you.

Tommorow,I think of it a lot what will tommorow bring me? will i improve my life? how how how, sometimes i get tired of thinking about tommorow let it come all i know when i get there, i want to be a cloud that just go with the wind on any direction it may blow

You poor thing, I think going blind, well losing any sense that you are familiar with is hard enough no matter what but not being able to see would be a tough one for me.

I hope that all goes well for you. I too wonder at times what tomorrow will hold for me, each day, we are trying to move and selling our house this time around has been very difficult. It is hard to figure what or why but it seems that taking things one day at a time is really helpful.

I too often think of the pioneers and in a way envy them for their strength.
I am sorry that you are going thru this but how blessed you are! You have a great hubby. Your doctor and nurses seem to be really good. AND - you live in an age that there is voice recognition software so you can keep using the puter.
I say try to do as much as you can on your list of things you want to do while you can. Beyond that - there are plenty of people out there who are blind or have other disabilities and are doing wonderfully.
I know what you mean about fear though.... my son is severely delayed (he will be 3 years old June 5th and is only now learning to walk and talk); I worry about what life will bring him. I have fibromyalgia and days like today when I hurt so bad and want nothing more than to sleep; I wonder what I am going to be able to do in 5 years, 10 years and beyond. Will I be able to care for myself or will I be disabled? I have no way of knowing so I can only place my faith in God and keep trying to make my way through as best I can each day.

You will be in my prayers. Take care fellow myLotian!

May God and Goddess bless you and give you the needed strength to go through the trials you are enduring. At one time I had to go through the Helen Keller training so I could relate to the blind people that I worked with in a better way. It was one of the most frightening things that I have ever done. Not only did we have to eat a meal with double blind-folds on, we were taken to a parking lot and told to follow our instructor by voice command. My instructor got deliberately distant from me (as did all the other with their students). I called for her but she would not respond, I shouted louder and again no response. I started spinning around in circles trying to remember the last place I had heard her voice and realized I was totally lost. I shouted for her again and she didn't answer. I could hear cars coming into the lot and cars leaving the lot (they were aware of what was going on so they were all driving slowly and we were being well monitored). I did exactly what I had seen many blind/impaired clients that I served do at that point. I began to cry and I sat! Yes, dear, I sat down in the middle of the parking lot. I knew that at any time I could take off my blind-fold; but I also knew that if I did that I would not get the full experience. I will never fully understand the depth of what you are feeling; but I do somewhat understand the fear. You know that I am only a few keystrokes away and I know that you can read this with your nose pressed up against the magnifier on your screen. Your Sister in Love~Donna

I hope good news. I will pray for you and I hope that everything turns out well. I have needed glasses myself since I was 7 so I understand about glasses. I were contacts now. I get checked for the same thing everytime I go to my eye doctor.