Lol!

Jose - KK4JZX


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Butch Bussen
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 12:14 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: accessible radio

I don't want to start a big debate here, but I think saying the only thing
we give up is driving is over simplified.  I was married to a wonderful
person for ten years and lived in Los Vegasand we depended on each other for
a lot of things.  She had site so ccould drive as well as read mail, tell me
controls on radios, play video poker and slots, go grocery shopping, and on
and on and on.  Sure you can learn to do a lot, but realistically I think it
is a royal pain in the ass and always will be, particularly since I'm back
in a small town and depend on my mom for reading mail and so forth.  Yep, I
do a lot, and even do a lot most sighted folks don't think I can do, but
lets be real, blindness sucks!!!!
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Fri, 24 May 2013, Howard Kaufman wrote:

> The common theme I am hearing is a version of what I keep preaching.
> The only thing you have to give up to blindness is driving.  
> Everything else is optional.  If you can go from "I can't do it 
> because I can't see"!!!
> To:
> I can't do it because I don't yet know how to do it with out eyesight"!!!
> You have turned the corner.
>
> Now I technically know that their are other things I can't do besides 
> driving, but the concept works.
>
> A major part of my attraction to ham radio, is that nobody needs to 
> know I am a blind person, unless I tell them.  Besides, everybody is 
> blind on the radio.
>
>
> H T Kaufman MSW LCSW
> Adaptive Technology Instructor
>
>