by Vanessa Potter | May 22, 2014 | Blindness
My new lower prescription specs arrived in the post and got their first outing at Croydon University hospital. The intention is for my eyes to level out a little and to reduce the dominance of my right eye. It is also to restrict my constant habit of trying to focus...
by Vanessa Potter | May 21, 2014 | Blindness
I have been given 15 minutes in which to do my thinking.I now have to condense and abridge my musings into this restricted time slot. My eye health is part of my vision therapy programme, and like the smoker trying to quit, I too have to curtail my habit.I also have...
by Vanessa Potter | Mar 31, 2014 | Blindness
The features of modern technology recently allowed me to eavesdrop a valuable and insightful conversation between my little one, and his four year old cousin as they walked hand in hand through a National Trust forest.They pragmatically and succinctly discussed...
by Vanessa Potter | Mar 18, 2014 | Blindness
I recall a sunny day in 1979, so bright and luminous it literally hurt my eyes. We’d ventured out as a family to a local farm for what looked like an impromptu summer fair. Several fathers were lobbing wellies as far as their soft stomachs would allow them, flexing...
by Vanessa Potter | Mar 13, 2014 | Blindness
The taxi curves around a walled courtyard and I hear the tyres crunch on expensive gravel beneath us. A modern glass frontage titivates a nineteenth century house; typical of many boutique hotels I’ve seen before. Mum and I attempt to extract ourselves from the back...
