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I just found your channel and your video is awesome I am also visionally impaired and I have a guide dog I have only light perception in my eye the left is not any good either so thanks for sharing this beautiful video

Hi it’s Shayla I’m going to be taking a break from RUclips health reasons But take care! 👍

How early were you born I was 27 weeks

Can you do a video on if you read Braille or how you read or maybe reading Braille word

you are very pretty young lady ! have a good day

good video ! have you ever considered cane travel? I’m afraid of dogs - I could 1 day loose sight it’s scary

I’m glad you have a special friend

You are a very inspirational person

Will you eventually loose all of your vision?

I love how your being humorous about your vision good deal

is it scary? 😟 wow thanks for this video I have some tunnel vision- from the ROP

Sassy tail, what is it like to be blind? can u describe how your vision looks for you dark, cloudy etc ?

ok nice yes one adjusted to my vision loss also

My question is: how much vision do you have left? I had ROP also

I’m Shayla you have a pretty voice thank you for talking to us

Is being blind scary? 🙁

Good video

I’m Shayla I was born at 27 weeks I had ROP 3 plus I was the first preemie in Alaska to have the cryotherapy 1989 I have a hard time detail vision

Y'all are such a great team! I miss you friend

Good job, pupper! I miss you guys

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Hi, our stories are similar, except for the number of surgeries (I had two). All the best to you!

Where is your Blog?

💜💜💜 Hi to princess puppy! Give her pets and love for me. Can't wait to see y'all soon!

So cool to see you teaching, friend! This is awesome and so are you 🤗

Hi bestest friend!!! 😄😄😄

Thank you so much for this sharing your story. It is so informative how you describe the perspective of both the VI child and VI adult. Your accomplishment of your degrees, career, and independent living is so inspiring! I shared your story with my 19 year old son who is also a former micro preemie with ROP (and several other eye conditions and preemie related issues). We have felt so isolated in the whole experience up until this point. No one has ever given us any resources as to how to achieve independence as an adult with impaired and declining vision. Thank you!

Hey there Jillian my name is Sam. I really like to thank you for starting this channel I'm glad that it's going to be focused on blind and vision loss with me being legally blind I have been looking for more visually impaired or blind people to collaborate with. I'm sure your videos will help other blind or visually impaired people including myself . I saw your video O&M 01 you mentioned that you were a teacher that's very interesting never seen a blind teacher not to say that you can't do it I'm sure you make a very fine educator I do have one question. Do you also teach orientation and Mobility? I saw that video and I was just wondering. I too have also had multiple eye surgeries glaucoma procedures throughout my life and may even need more eye surgeries in the future due to the Cataract development that I now have in my left eye which is the better I with remaining vision which is fairly low and almost no peripheral vision I can practically see only what's directly in front of me and maybe a little bit off to the right but not very much. Going to school I had a lot of help from services for the blind I had bold line paper bold 20 20 pin markers that I would use magnifiers and large print material and audio which is my preferred choice especially when it comes to reading books I do receive services from the Texas talking book program for the blind. I have also had some orientation Mobility when I was in school however it was not focused on the white cane it was basically focused on just using my low vision on how to get around in my environment also using assistive devices such as monoculars and other optical devices for reading street signs or finding addresses on buildings also familiar ization is another thing I was taught if for some reason optical devices were not available or I just didn't have them at the time I was also taught how to use landmarks in my surroundings to tell me exactly where I'm at if I was unable to read a street sign and whenever possible to maybe just walk up to the sign and read it from there you see I can't read street signs from across the street at an intersection but if I walk up to it enough right under it I can kind of read it somewhat there is still some difficulty though. Once again thank you so much for starting your channel I will be subscribing.

Hi there my name is Sam I live in South Texas Coastal Bend area . I've been legally blind most of my life as well I was born with congenital nystagmus involuntary movement of the eyes I lost all the vision in my right eye due to an eye injury that I sustained at 6 years old also developed glaucoma at a very young age the type of glaucoma is open-angle up until now it has taken most of my peripheral vision so I too have almost no peripheral vision in my left eye. The glaucoma in my right eye is pretty severe the eye pressures are always pretty high they told me that some time at some point in my life I may need to get a prosthetic right eye. I also have developing cataracts astigmatism and myopia I go to my eye doctor and my visual Acuity is usually around 20 / 70 to 20 /100 . I can agree with you when you say that visual Acuity alone doesn't really Define how well a person sees eye doctors use visual acuity basically it's just some kind of measurement system that helps eye doctors determine just how clear you can see however the situation can be so much more different when you're actually out getting around in your environment just because my vision was 20 / 70 during one exam I could walk out of there 30 minutes later I could be worse than that you see I have congenital nystagmus like I said so my visual Acuity fluctuates even if it doesn't always show up in an eye exam it fluctuates day by day sometimes hour by hour I don't know if my opthamologist really understands that or not. I also have depth perception issues because of the eye movement I cannot always find her a curb or a step starts or ends pinpointing the exact edge of a stepper curb is difficult for me I also never use the white cane most of my life but recently has started using one for identification and some very mild Mobility I'm currently using it without any Mobility training cuz I don't really have to depend on the Kane all the time I am considering on getting some orientation and Mobility training in the future should I lose anymore Vision which that is very highly possible. I am also diabetic so that doesn't make things any better you said you were born with retinopathy that seems kind of unusual most people usually get that when they're diabetic there are no signs of it in my case yet but that doesn't mean it can't happen. Anyway thanks for sharing your story I hope to hear from you I hope to get some replies and I hope I can get to know you take care.

Your doggo is adorable ❤ bc want to see more vids like this !

I hope your videos really make a difference in someone's life! Charles Escalon

Thank you so much! I have just begun to have eye issues with one eye. It is so comforting to see another person being able to cope.