Nalla
Disney Pup
- Joined
- Sep 30, 2008
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I have bad vision, and while my service dog is helpful (she's primarily med alert, and is learning guide work), I'm still frustrated.
I can't see in low light or dark, and now that it's getting to be winter there is less and less sunlight. I can see for less and less of the day, and I spend most of my day frustrated because I know that come 4pm my vision will start to go. I can't take my little dog for his own walks now because when I get home around 4 or 5pm I already can't see. I have to walk him while using my guide, which annoys him because he wants his own walk. During the summer I take each dog separately (my two and whatever others happen to be staying with me at the time), and now I can't.
Every season change where it starts getting dark like this, I get upset and frustrated. I know it's dumb to get all worked up over it, but I do it anyway. My vision has gotten worse and worse over the past few years, and I had gotten used to summer, where I can get myself around well enough during the day (and sun lasted until 9pm) and even dawn/dusk I managed not seeing because I knew I had lots of time to be able to see.
I feel like I'm missing things. My mom tried to cheer me up, telling me I still have like nine hours a day when the light is good enough for me to see. But how would she feel, having only nine hours or so a day when she can see? I mean, she doesn't know, she can even see in the dark (at least as well as most people), and her eyes don't freak out and take forever to adjust to light changing. I'm missing out on a lot of time because I can't see, and when I can I'm worried because if the lights dim I won't be able to and once it turns dusk I won't be able to.
I'm doing my best to learn to get myself around without seeing, but it's hard. I hate it.
Sorry to rant.
I can't see in low light or dark, and now that it's getting to be winter there is less and less sunlight. I can see for less and less of the day, and I spend most of my day frustrated because I know that come 4pm my vision will start to go. I can't take my little dog for his own walks now because when I get home around 4 or 5pm I already can't see. I have to walk him while using my guide, which annoys him because he wants his own walk. During the summer I take each dog separately (my two and whatever others happen to be staying with me at the time), and now I can't.
Every season change where it starts getting dark like this, I get upset and frustrated. I know it's dumb to get all worked up over it, but I do it anyway. My vision has gotten worse and worse over the past few years, and I had gotten used to summer, where I can get myself around well enough during the day (and sun lasted until 9pm) and even dawn/dusk I managed not seeing because I knew I had lots of time to be able to see.
I feel like I'm missing things. My mom tried to cheer me up, telling me I still have like nine hours a day when the light is good enough for me to see. But how would she feel, having only nine hours or so a day when she can see? I mean, she doesn't know, she can even see in the dark (at least as well as most people), and her eyes don't freak out and take forever to adjust to light changing. I'm missing out on a lot of time because I can't see, and when I can I'm worried because if the lights dim I won't be able to and once it turns dusk I won't be able to.
I'm doing my best to learn to get myself around without seeing, but it's hard. I hate it.
Sorry to rant.