Hi Gary,
You say that you don't know of anyone who would pick blindness over sight.
I guess it depends on how you define your terms.
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…I think sudden, untrained sightedness, or even latter-day trained sightedness, would be a bigger pain in the ass.
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Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
On May 30, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Gery Gaubert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> ed out this way. Now as far as the blindness thing. I doubt that anyone h=
> ere would prefer blindness over sight. No one cares about accessibility fo=
> r the blind for the most part. Cable tv boxes, microwaves, washers and dry=
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> ssibility. May not be perfect but its better than most.
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