In article <
cirkf1...@mid.individual.net>,
stan...@invalid.yahoo.com
writes:
>I have a friend who has been blind since birth. She earned
>a PhD, got all A's all the way through school, and taught at a state
>university.
That's me! I'm totally blind from birth and in the process of writing my Ph.D.
dissertation on Cuban piano at U. Penn. Hopefully, I'll find a state university
professorial post after it's done.
>I took her out to eat and grocery shopping once a week until
>she moved to another town.
That kind of consistent help is always welcome. My fiancée works long shifts as
an emergency room nurse, so I often must make due without her. That gets
difficult without friends or family nearby to help.
>She was remarkable--lived alone, cooked her
>meals, and even had developed a sense of what colors of clothes went
>together (developed from reading). She would ask questions about the colors
>and then hang clothes in her closet so she would know what "went together."
I did all that when I lived alone. I can cook almost anything from soup to
nuts, as long as people don't rearrange the kitchen.
Orlando