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Sight loss groups and making friends

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I attended the monthly sight loss group on Thursday this week.

Meeting up with visually impaired people and their families and friends helps probably all of us get a better understanding of blindness as a spectrum and all it’s different forms.

Somebody new attended with their family this week.

It’s a lovely welcoming group and getting quite a large one!

There’s different age ranges of the people who attend the groups I’m in. From mid 20s to people in their 70s. We did have people come at one point in their 80s and even 90 odd years of age!

It’s lovely talking to different age groups. You can learn alot and it’s so interesting. I don’t really know many older people anymore, so I love chatting with those old enough to be my parents age as it brings them back in a way hearing their similar stories I used to hear and I love their company. I’m somewhere in the middle age range and like to help welcome and support new people and also make sure they are comfortable and having a good time so they come again.

A sight loss diagnosis can be a devastating, most likely, life changing, news to deal with. Making you feel isolated, losing or leaving your job because of it, not being able to drive anymore, not able to make friends easily or even losing friends because of it.

Having a group that understands, even though your condition might be different to someone else’s, makes all the difference.

I’ve made some amazing friends through them.

There is also a the bi-weekly group in the centre of Wakefield, you can have a cuppa and a natter if you don’t drink or if you do there is plenty of choice to have a bevvy.

The group I attended on Thursday is once a month. It’s abit more raucous ☺️ with a fair few drinks and we all look after each other getting around between 2 of the pubs in Pontefract.

If you are around the Wakefield area and are visually impaired and feel you’d like to meet up with us or know someone who could be interested. Please get in touch with me by my messenger button and I’ll forward you onto my good mate Ross who organises this or my other half Richard to give you a bell with the details.

There are 2 groups I attend at the moment. And they have helped me come to terms with my diagnosis immensely.

We do chat about our blindness at times if someone needs support, it’s always there. Funny stories, frustrations etc. We also just chit chat about other stuff. They are all an incredible lovely and funny bunch.

Two young women sat together facing each other at the foreground. One with short blonde hair and one with short dark hair chat infront of three people in the background sat at the bar. At the top of the picture there is green foliage and flowers on the ceiling filled with fairy lights.
PD 1 Two young women sat together facing each other at the foreground. One with short blonde hair and one with short dark hair chat infront of three people in the background sat at the bar. At the top of the picture there is green foliage and flowers on the ceiling filled with fairy lights.

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Salt and Peppers here

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After making myself my tea the other day (for southerners in the UK – dinner) and subsequently making myself so blumming thirsty ‘cos I couldn’t see how much salt I was putting on.

So whilst in the supermarket, I’ve bought myself a little pot of salt and pepper so that I can pinch out of the tub and know how much I’m dealing with.

Honestly, you’d have thought I had been stuck in the desert the way the thirst grabbed me. I had ruined my veggies, but still ate them. Never again.

Stay tuned for blind handy tips. So you don’t have to make the mistakes I do 😂

PD A small pot of salt and pepper already mixed. A see through pot with a blue graphic on the lid. From the Cornish Sea Salt Co.
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Central Vision Loss problems

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People with central vision loss will know what these photographs mean.

PD 1 In the background is a wooden pub bar with colourful stained glass windows. In the foreground is a glass with a dark coloured drink (rum and coke) with a black straw inside the glass.
PD 2 The same Dark coloured drink photographed from above on top of a dark brown table. The straw has been taken out of the glass and is now on the table next to it