Posted in How I'm Adapting, Useful Information

Large font keyboard for mobiles

Posted on by One Vision

The keyboard I use for my phone and tablet is called SwiftKey.

You can make the pad larger so you can see the letters and numbers.

Also, you know those tiny blumming emojis and pictures? Well just type in a word of the emoji or picture you want to use ie… clapping 👏, laughing 😂, even monkey 🙊, and it will pop up on the right hand side of your keyboard if you have selected emoji predict.

Alot easier because you don’t want to be accidentally giving a smiley ☺ face or a thumb👍 up to a message or post that requires a sad 😔 face do you?

Posted in Funny Stories, How I'm Adapting

Making up isn’t so hard to do

Posted on by One Vision
Makeup.

There is a way round this for now.
And its this..

A 10X magnifying mirror. You can get stronger strengths of you need them. Saves me from stressing out putting makeup on, doing eyebrows etc and saves time.

Eyeliner takes a while as both eyes have to match, obviously. I’ve nearly gone out with berry coloured lip pencil before now on one eye… Actually.. I’ve just had a thought… If I put some bright nail varnish on the end of the lip pencils.. I will know it’s the lip pencil won’t I? Genius. Don’t know why I didn’t think of that before now. Problem solving. Getting good at this.
Anyway, I’m digressing… they have got to match and usually the first friend I see if I’m going out is greeted by… ‘hello… *hug* is my makeup ok’.
You don’t want to look a clown or drag queen when you haven’t blended your foundation correctly or if one eyebrow is concerned and the other surprised.
Just takes a bit more patience and concentration these days but it can be done ☺
Now nail varnish. This is a pain in the arse. I cannot see my nails to put the nail varnish on. Mainly because the flesh of the fingers and the nails are similar in colour. They sort of merge together.
I hit and hope. Maybe just writing this now has made me think I should fathom out a way. So I will. It may look like this – (please see picture below)… for all I know. Unless I put my fingernails right up to my face to look.
Womans fingers with badly applied red nail varnish
So, I would recommend starting with a 10X magnifying mirror possibly one you can clip or suction into something if there is such a thing (this would have been useful earlier… Please see the False hopes post 😕).
Posted in How I'm Adapting

Blinded by the light – coping with glare

Posted on by One Vision
A photograph with white light brightly shining obscuring the image

I’m just going to give you a description of how light gives me problems

If I step in from outside through the day (light to dark) it takes a few seconds for my eyes to adjust so I’m temporarily what I would call blinded for a few seconds.

The transition makes me wary if I’m unfamiliar with the building as I don’t want to be tumbling down a step I can’t see 😕

Through the day, glare from the sunlight on objects, metal ones in particular, vehicles, poles, windows make me turn away and I often start turning away before they ‘catch me’.

Night time, any lights at all outside.

Sunglasses make your eyes feel ‘comfier’ even on quite a normal day when it’s not bright for anyone else.

Bit graphic but, it feels like pointy stick is being poked in your eye and if I don’t have my sunglasses on and it’s bright, I will suffer later with pains in my eye socket for a few hours upto a few days later.