Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due.
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As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months.
When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.
The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.
Experience is the cane of the blind.
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.
I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God.
In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.
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