Yet another excellent video Beverly! I and also many of your followers, really enjoy these intellectual and educational videos! I am one of those individuals that you have been advocating for! I became suddenly legally blind at age 52, while i was still working, as a partial able sited person. There wasn't very much out there for help. I had to learn things by myself, now that I am a disabled blind individual...... Literally overnight! However, RUclips has been very very helpful with the VIP community! So, I have one question Beverly. When are you and I going to Washington DC and do something about this! 👍 Keep trucking Beverly!😀
Hi Paul, yes, it seems very discouraging to me that the visually impaired population is so underserved, especially in the moment in time when vision is first affected. The general population fears site laws so very much so I would think that more emphasis would be placed on care after someone experiences such a loss. I would love to take a trip to DC but I am pessimistic toward the thought of anyone taking action, action originated in Washington that is. Hopefully awareness will continue to spread about those of us who are on the vision loss spectrum and services could be provided at the proper time, the date of onset, not five years later. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and a piece of your journey. Stay safe and thanks again for connecting! Love, Beverly
Another idea to help you with not running into your coffee table is if you put the rug down and you notice OK I’m approaching it. Just kind of take a step with 1 foot and move it back-and-forth and make sure you’re not gonna run into the coffee table and then put that foot downin front of you and then take another step do the same sweeping motion with that foot until you find the coffee table and then you can more easily go around it by trailing it with either the side of your leg or with your hand or
You are right! I have two scars in each of my eye brows. I even have one on my cheek, from where I ran into a chain link fence gate. There was a wire poking out. I was a child at the time, so I was at the right hight to run right into it. I have lived in my home for all my life. I don’t use my cane anywhere indoors or outdoors at home. I on occasion, will forget about the microwave door being open. I will run right into it. The dishwasher door, too.
Hi Kimberly, it is really interesting to me that veterans of vision loss, like you and me, still have difficulties even in familiar environments. Yes, the dishwasher door is in a horrible place if it is fully opened, at least in my kitchen. I have forgotten that I was loading the dishwasher and have run into it, full stride. My dishwasher door hits me right above the ankle, pretty low and it has taken some pretty strong hits from me. I have even fallen into it and it really is a miracle that it still functions. Much like the miracle, that I still function. Lol! Thanks so much for sharing your experiences. I can definitely relate as can many of the viewers stay safe and try to keep cool! Love, Beverly
I agree with all of this, and have a lot I will have to come back and post. I have looked for this same information and found a lot of the same irrelevant answers, online. The thing that I cannot stop giggling about in the moment is, the pocket flap sticking straight out on the butt part! 🤣 It's true though, when you realize you're just going to be ironing some things❣️😂 I have tried using a curling iron to iron parts of button down shirts, a few times. I know I have had that pocket flap at least once. Another set of injuries blind people get more than anyone sighted can imagine are repetition type injuries because we walk so much and we find out things as we go along by exploration and discovery. We don't have the easy method of sitting in the car and just looking around at what all there is nearby. We are forced to go door to door to find out things. That's how Walmart is as well, we have to hands on explore every aisle as much as though we were the person stocking the shelves, because all to often asking for sighted assistance is a fifty fifty chance you will get a person who will really look very intently for something you know, is there. I used to run across people who wanted me come back later when it was anybody's shift but theirs, so that they wouldn't have to look for anything. So at some point we just start procedural searching in the interest of getting our errands done. I pack my own groceries because I have to keep up with them and get them home. So really we have a lot of sports type injuries. I deal with chronic exertional compartment syndrome. I had gotten to where I would get behind a car in a low traffic residential area, and run behind it so I could get to the bus stop that was a mile from my house, faster. My friend tried to get help for a foot injury so she could get back to her usual pace and it was very difficult for her doctor and rehabilitation person to grasp her daily activities involving walking all the time and why she needed someway of fixing this so that it would not keep limiting her usual activities. They just assume blind people are sedentary. It is like they didn't just hear our explanation of what we do daily. They think going out by ourselves only rarely happens and that we have house keepers. I cleaned other people's houses for a living. My friend traveled all the time to teach adaptive technology. The frustration is when a doctor googles they find the same information that we keep finding that doesn't apply, and it's more complicated now that most doctors are boxed into being corporately managed.
Hi totally had confidence that you would get this whole concept Audrey! I know that in this video, I portray myself as a bumbling idiot, bumping into tables, Face planting walls or door facings, burning myself in the kitchen or accidentally cutting a finger while chopping zucchini. I just wanted to show that no one is, To my knowledge, focusing on these specific hazards when an individual suddenly loses their vision or loses vision over time. There is not an adequate support network to properly teach these avoidance skills. I have had people however, ask me, how do you put your house key in the lock to open your front door and how could you know which key to use? Also, I have had many people try to assist me with sitting down in a chair as if I were too weak to support my own body. I have also been asked “how do you not fall off the toilet“. I am serious! Several people have asked me how do blind people get in and out of the tub or shower without falling? This video was simply intended to raise awareness about how misunderstood site loss can be and you are absolutely right, most assume that without vision, one just sits around Stationæry all day, every day and somehow The blind helper fairies come in and clean, cook, bathe, read all your correspondence and mail and run all of your errands and do your shopping. How else could a blind person exist? Lol! Love you,
Yes! I know this concept sounds unbelievable but I have actually been asked this question. I have also been asked, how blind people can find the toilet, which is more of an understandable question I think. I also have had people who believe that blind people will just slip out or fall out of a chair because, how can you center your body in the middle of the seat if you can’t see? The sad reality is that many people actually believe this which further stigmatizes the blonde population in general I think. I know, crazy, isn’t it!
I was anticipating or hoping that someone would mention shoulder injuries as I omitted this body part from the list on my video. I was just in a meeting with an orthopedic surgeon discussing the types of shoulder injuries that he treats. We were not discussing anything about me or blindness in particular but I have done some reading and learning of shoulder anatomy and wanted to get his perspective. One of the easiest ways to injure a Shoulder is direct impact which is what we as blind people do many times. Hips and elbows can’t be overlooked either. Love your thoughts and ideas and thanks so much for sharing your experiences and thoughts. Love, Beverly
@@BlindNeil I completely understand but I personally save those gymnastics moves for public areas such as streetside, restaurants with stairs, exiting trains etc. One of the worst is walking along and just stepping into a very slight invisible dip or hole in the walking surface. It throws my back out but usually doesn’t cause a fall. Such fun Blind adventures! Lol!
Chug holes get me a lot, it's more like I jumped off something while maximum overdrive walking. I used to walk and run more like I was high step marching, to avoid tripping on these places in roads and parking lots and fields, but if I was trying to go faster the sudden lower ground followed by the way higher next marching foot step up on what was expected to be uniform street level, took a lot out on my joints. I do use a wheelchair as walker now and crash into the wheels and rails and impale myself a lot when there are giant gaps between where the gutters normally would join the street except the earth has moved quite a lot separating them from driveways and road crossings. I still have to be mindful about going slower, and not automatically doing the power walk that I developed as I became more and more adept with my caning skills partly to hold my line, and partly to not be waylaid by various characters while I tried to get to the last connecting bus stop home before the fixed route shuts down for the night or the weekend.
That technique is excellent and probably could be used by so many of us, even around the home. I have seriously considered getting a bike helmet but my husband feels that a football helmet would be best for me because it has more protection for the face. Lol. I can just see me going to answer my front door wearing a full headgear football helmet. But, it would probably prevent a lot of facial or head injuries within my home. I think the ball cap would look much better. Seriously though, a visor restricts some of the functional vision that I have remaining. I have no central vision but can see the moldings and wall to ceiling parameters as I enter each room. Those things are within my Field of vision, even though the door facings and door headers are not visible with my particular site loss. I still will try the ball cap because it sounds like a really good technique for avoiding or minimizing face plants. Thanks for sharing.
@@bamablind9916 I think you could pull it off wearing a helmet, answering the door. If you were to wear an Alabama football helmet Beverly! Hahaha Roll Tide! Blessings!
I love this! Roll Tide roll! I could definitely pull this off. I have an authentic university of Alabama football jersey, sold during the season of the last time The players wore the, non-disposable jerseys. I am number 32, defensive safety, my position in powder puff football that I played in high school. Now I just need my helmet and when I get one, I’ll do a video just for you. Thanks for making me laugh!
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Yet another excellent video Beverly! I and also many of your followers, really enjoy these intellectual and educational videos! I am one of those individuals that you have been advocating for! I became suddenly legally blind at age 52, while i was still working, as a partial able sited person. There wasn't very much out there for help. I had to learn things by myself, now that I am a disabled blind individual...... Literally overnight! However, RUclips has been very very helpful with the VIP community! So, I have one question Beverly. When are you and I going to Washington DC and do something about this! 👍 Keep trucking Beverly!😀
Hi Paul, yes, it seems very discouraging to me that the visually impaired population is so underserved, especially in the moment in time when vision is first affected. The general population fears site laws so very much so I would think that more emphasis would be placed on care after someone experiences such a loss. I would love to take a trip to DC but I am pessimistic toward the thought of anyone taking action, action originated in Washington that is. Hopefully awareness will continue to spread about those of us who are on the vision loss spectrum and services could be provided at the proper time, the date of onset, not five years later. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and a piece of your journey. Stay safe and thanks again for connecting! Love, Beverly
Another idea to help you with not running into your coffee table is if you put the rug down and you notice OK I’m approaching it. Just kind of take a step with 1 foot and move it back-and-forth and make sure you’re not gonna run into the coffee table and then put that foot downin front of you and then take another step do the same sweeping motion with that foot until you find the coffee table and then you can more easily go around it by trailing it with either the side of your leg or with your hand or
You are right! I have two scars in each of my eye brows. I even have one on my cheek, from where I ran into a chain link fence gate. There was a wire poking out. I was a child at the time, so I was at the right hight to run right into it. I have lived in my home for all my life. I don’t use my cane anywhere indoors or outdoors at home. I on occasion, will forget about the microwave door being open. I will run right into it. The dishwasher door, too.
Hi Kimberly, it is really interesting to me that veterans of vision loss, like you and me, still have difficulties even in familiar environments. Yes, the dishwasher door is in a horrible place if it is fully opened, at least in my kitchen. I have forgotten that I was loading the dishwasher and have run into it, full stride. My dishwasher door hits me right above the ankle, pretty low and it has taken some pretty strong hits from me. I have even fallen into it and it really is a miracle that it still functions. Much like the miracle, that I still function. Lol! Thanks so much for sharing your experiences. I can definitely relate as can many of the viewers stay safe and try to keep cool! Love, Beverly
I agree with all of this, and have a lot I will have to come back and post. I have looked for this same information and found a lot of the same irrelevant answers, online. The thing that I cannot stop giggling about in the moment is, the pocket flap sticking straight out on the butt part! 🤣 It's true though, when you realize you're just going to be ironing some things❣️😂 I have tried using a curling iron to iron parts of button down shirts, a few times. I know I have had that pocket flap at least once. Another set of injuries blind people get more than anyone sighted can imagine are repetition type injuries because we walk so much and we find out things as we go along by exploration and discovery. We don't have the easy method of sitting in the car and just looking around at what all there is nearby. We are forced to go door to door to find out things. That's how Walmart is as well, we have to hands on explore every aisle as much as though we were the person stocking the shelves, because all to often asking for sighted assistance is a fifty fifty chance you will get a person who will really look very intently for something you know, is there. I used to run across people who wanted me come back later when it was anybody's shift but theirs, so that they wouldn't have to look for anything. So at some point we just start procedural searching in the interest of getting our errands done. I pack my own groceries because I have to keep up with them and get them home. So really we have a lot of sports type injuries. I deal with chronic exertional compartment syndrome. I had gotten to where I would get behind a car in a low traffic residential area, and run behind it so I could get to the bus stop that was a mile from my house, faster. My friend tried to get help for a foot injury so she could get back to her usual pace and it was very difficult for her doctor and rehabilitation person to grasp her daily activities involving walking all the time and why she needed someway of fixing this so that it would not keep limiting her usual activities. They just assume blind people are sedentary. It is like they didn't just hear our explanation of what we do daily. They think going out by ourselves only rarely happens and that we have house keepers. I cleaned other people's houses for a living. My friend traveled all the time to teach adaptive technology.
The frustration is when a doctor googles they find the same information that we keep finding that doesn't apply, and it's more complicated now that most doctors are boxed into being corporately managed.
Hi totally had confidence that you would get this whole concept Audrey! I know that in this video, I portray myself as a bumbling idiot, bumping into tables, Face planting walls or door facings, burning myself in the kitchen or accidentally cutting a finger while chopping zucchini. I just wanted to show that no one is, To my knowledge, focusing on these specific hazards when an individual suddenly loses their vision or loses vision over time. There is not an adequate support network to properly teach these avoidance skills. I have had people however, ask me, how do you put your house key in the lock to open your front door and how could you know which key to use? Also, I have had many people try to assist me with sitting down in a chair as if I were too weak to support my own body. I have also been asked “how do you not fall off the toilet“. I am serious! Several people have asked me how do blind people get in and out of the tub or shower without falling? This video was simply intended to raise awareness about how misunderstood site loss can be and you are absolutely right, most assume that without vision, one just sits around Stationæry all day, every day and somehow The blind helper fairies come in and clean, cook, bathe, read all your correspondence and mail and run all of your errands and do your shopping. How else could a blind person exist? Lol! Love you,
@@bamablind9916 How do you not fall from the toilet? Hahahahaha priceless!
Yes! I know this concept sounds unbelievable but I have actually been asked this question. I have also been asked, how blind people can find the toilet, which is more of an understandable question I think. I also have had people who believe that blind people will just slip out or fall out of a chair because, how can you center your body in the middle of the seat if you can’t see? The sad reality is that many people actually believe this which further stigmatizes the blonde population in general I think. I know, crazy, isn’t it!
Hi Bama . The audio is a little low on this one . Congratz on 300
So sorry about the quality of the audio and I will try to make some acoustic corrections in my recording area. Thanks for the feedback. Love, Beverly
my legs, shoulders and hips are always bruised
I was anticipating or hoping that someone would mention shoulder injuries as I omitted this body part from the list on my video. I was just in a meeting with an orthopedic surgeon discussing the types of shoulder injuries that he treats. We were not discussing anything about me or blindness in particular but I have done some reading and learning of shoulder anatomy and wanted to get his perspective. One of the easiest ways to injure a Shoulder is direct impact which is what we as blind people do many times. Hips and elbows can’t be overlooked either. Love your thoughts and ideas and thanks so much for sharing your experiences and thoughts. Love, Beverly
@@bamablind9916 personally neck and back injury as well. Stepping ,and the shock of, no step or step, and landing straight legged
@@BlindNeil I completely understand but I personally save those gymnastics moves for public areas such as streetside, restaurants with stairs, exiting trains etc. One of the worst is walking along and just stepping into a very slight invisible dip or hole in the walking surface. It throws my back out but usually doesn’t cause a fall. Such fun Blind adventures! Lol!
@@bamablind9916 Thats where mine always happen , away from the mental map of home
Chug holes get me a lot, it's more like I jumped off something while maximum overdrive walking. I used to walk and run more like I was high step marching, to avoid tripping on these places in roads and parking lots and fields, but if I was trying to go faster the sudden lower ground followed by the way higher next marching foot step up on what was expected to be uniform street level, took a lot out on my joints. I do use a wheelchair as walker now and crash into the wheels and rails and impale myself a lot when there are giant gaps between where the gutters normally would join the street except the earth has moved quite a lot separating them from driveways and road crossings. I still have to be mindful about going slower, and not automatically doing the power walk that I developed as I became more and more adept with my caning skills partly to hold my line, and partly to not be waylaid by various characters while I tried to get to the last connecting bus stop home before the fixed route shuts down for the night or the weekend.
One idea is to put a rug under your coffee table and then when you come up to that rug, you’ll know OK I’m approaching the coffee table
Honestly, I don’t know a single visually impaired or blind person that uses hurricane in their place that they live to get around I certainly don’t
I wear a ball cap all the time .. the bill of the hat at the least gives me that 3 inch warning something is there in front of me.
That technique is excellent and probably could be used by so many of us, even around the home. I have seriously considered getting a bike helmet but my husband feels that a football helmet would be best for me because it has more protection for the face. Lol. I can just see me going to answer my front door wearing a full headgear football helmet. But, it would probably prevent a lot of facial or head injuries within my home. I think the ball cap would look much better. Seriously though, a visor restricts some of the functional vision that I have remaining. I have no central vision but can see the moldings and wall to ceiling parameters as I enter each room. Those things are within my Field of vision, even though the door facings and door headers are not visible with my particular site loss. I still will try the ball cap because it sounds like a really good technique for avoiding or minimizing face plants. Thanks for sharing.
@@bamablind9916 I think you could pull it off wearing a helmet, answering the door. If you were to wear an Alabama football helmet Beverly! Hahaha
Roll Tide!
Blessings!
I love this! Roll Tide roll! I could definitely pull this off. I have an authentic university of Alabama football jersey, sold during the season of the last time The players wore the, non-disposable jerseys. I am number 32, defensive safety, my position in powder puff football that I played in high school. Now I just need my helmet and when I get one, I’ll do a video just for you. Thanks for making me laugh!