Might I recommend Crashing Through by Mike May - on the NLS
website. Lost his vision very young and got some back forty years
later. Interesting book - will make you think.
Pat, K9JAUAt 04:00 PM 5/30/2013, you wrote:
>Hi Gary,
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>You say that you don't know of anyone who would pick blindness over =
>sight.=20
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>I guess it depends on how you define your terms.=20
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>If I could pick to go back and be sighted my whole life, maybe I'd pick =
>that. However, I would definitely not pick "going sighted", had I the =
>opportunity to do so starting from now forward. It would be too much of =
>a pain in the ass. You think blindness is a pain in the ass? Heh=85I =
>think sudden, untrained sightedness, or even latter-day trained =
>sightedness, would be a bigger pain in the ass.=20
>--
>Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
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