It has been a little while since I have put
a post on this blog and you might have been wondering what has been going on.
Well, I have been busy. Doing what you might ask. I have been busy thinking!
Let me explain! Several weeks ago, Lyle
noticed an article in the paper about a company called Esight. The
article told how the company had produced a pair of goggles that could
potentially enable partially sighted people to be able to see. Lyle sent an
email request for more information and the next thing I knew, a representative
from the company phoned me to ask if I was interested in meeting with someone
to learn more. Chad asked me a number of questions about myself and it seems as
if I might be a possible candidate for the product, although there is no
guarantee of success.
I was surprised at the mixed emotions all this
has brought about. Since 1986 when my sight changed, and I was told that there
was absolutely no chance of any recovered sight, I felt that I needed to resign
myself to that way of seeing. I wouldn’t say that this was easily accomplished.
Nor did my acceptance of the situation happen overnight. Now here it is nearly
thirty years later and I could possibly be given a second chance, so how do I feel
about that? If the question had been proposed those three decades ago, I am
sure that I would have no hesitation. Now I am unsure. It has taken me all these
years to get used to the idea of seeing imperfectly, and I have been asking myself,
how much learning would it take to readjust to the world if I had my sight
back.
I know that there are a few things that I
would dearly like to be able to see. Probably the most important of these would
be the ability to actually see the faces of my family.
The upshot of all this is that I have
decided to go ahead and meet with the Esight representative when he or
she comes to Alberta. (The company is based in Toronto.) I am a little nervous
and a little excited all at the same time.
I will continue to think things through, and I will certainly write
an update when the next step in the
process is reached.
The web address for the company is:
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