Agreed.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 12:14 PM
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
>>
>>