Sandi Wassmer
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Coming to terms with a disability and the grieving process
After my dad had his leg amputated this year and during his subsequent journey from recovering in the hospital to moving to the rehabilitation centre and beginning to learn to walk again with his prosthetic leg, I was absolutely staggered by his resolve and the fact that he appeared to have bypassed the grieving process altogether and because I have gone through it myself, just found it impossible to believe.
Carers who care for loved ones. Not a job for the fainthearted.
When I decided to grab hold of the grieving process with both hands and mourn the loss of my eyesight wholesale, I tried to get my husband, Mark, to come along for the ride. But, the truth was that, although he was going to be there to love and support me and catch me when I fell, which he did plenty, it was a journey that I had to take alone. But, and boy is this a big but, it would now appear that although he did not need to join me on my journey, he did need to have one of his very own.
Living with disability – when age, disability, sight loss, parents and children come together
My dad will be 83 this year and like most people his age, he has had some health issues, but until now, these have either been curable, treatable or manageable and have allowed him to lead a full and independent life with the unspoken motto 'Have golf clubs. Will travel'. But disability has arrived at his door and he is, amazingly, quite graciously accepting of it.
On meeting milestones in progressive sight loss
Over the past few weeks or so, I realise that I have reached some new sight loss milestones, and I use the word 'realise' on purpose, because when I have a new symptom or some aspect of my vision degenerates to the point where I can no longer do something I used to be able to do, it is like a slow dawning rather than just waking up one day and saying "Alrighty. That’s a goner", and then ticking some sort of box on your list of milestones.
Getting to grips with the emotional side of sight loss
Getting to a happy place when you are dealing with sight loss is no easy thing, and there are so many variables, so how it’s done and when you will arrive at said happy place is different for everyone. But what I do know is this; as human beings, we may not be in control of what happens to us physiologically, but for those of us who are fortunate enough to have good mental health, we are in control of how we respond to it and attitude is everything!
Businesswoman Sandi Wassmer registered blind in 2008. In her blog, she shares with us the 'shenanigans of visual impairment'. Find Sandi on Google+
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