Going Blind Sucks Going Blind Sucks
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- Society & Culture
Dustin and Joy discuss the realities of dealing with vision loss and the effect it has on those both the one losing their sight and the ones that love them.
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Episode 25 – How You Can Help
This week we look to keep it lighter and talk about ways that non visually impaired people can make life a little easier for visually impaired people. Pretty simple. Almost feels weird writing that short of a description about it, but that’s what it is… So yeah, take a listen.
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Episode 24 – Hope and Home
This week we discuss some good news we received from the eye doctor, talk about the additional stresses of buying a home when you have RP hanging over your head and struggling with enjoying now when you feel like you have to protect yourself for the future.
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Episode 23 – Raging Because of the Dying of the Light
In this week’s episode we talk about being angry. It is a natural part of losing anything, but society frowns upon it. Is it really fair to expect a person to go through hard times and not be angry?
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Episode 22 – What’s The Worst That Could Happen?
In this week’s episode we talk about how hard it can be to shake off tough vision times. What is at the heart of being so scared and look at what is the worst that could happen? And we look at the difference between complaining and letting others know what you are going through.
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Episode 21 – Joy Tries RP Glasses At Night & How Validation Can Hurt Too
In this week’s episode Joy tries on the RP goggles again, this time at night. We talk about how sometimes folks validating how hard it can be can make you feel worse. We also discuss how hard it can be taking care of someone with a disability and how hard it can be to be … Continue reading Episode 21 – Joy Tries RP Glasses At Night & How Validation Can Hurt Too →
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Episode 20 – Joy Tries RP Glasses
On this week’s episode Joy tries a pair of tunnel vision simulating goggles and gets a better idea of what it’s really like to have RP and Dustin explains why closets are for suckers. Here is the link for the glasses.