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<blockquote data-quote="Sosgez" data-source="post: 2202775" data-attributes="member: 518889"><p>No. I have asked, researched, followed, gone to meetings. Its one of the agencies failing me that I mentioned before. Other agencies point me at RNIB and think they are "helping".</p><p></p><p>RNIB doctrine is that blind and partially sighted people can do any job, and list a few anecdotal examples.</p><p>But employers think otherwise.</p><p></p><p>If you are shopping for beans and see there are 2 cans on the shelf. One normal, one a bit dented and scratched, but at the same price. Which one would you take ?</p><p></p><p>Another issue is that whatever I can do today, some of that will not be possible tomorrow.</p><p>I have started things in the last year, and then lost functionality, causing me to abandon that task.</p><p></p><p>I had 40 eye injections, very expensive, £813 per shot, just for the drug. During the course of that, my sight got a lot worse, even though its the best treatment available. I had good sugar control, lots of exercise, but still, things deteriorate.</p><p></p><p>I'm glad to still be able to use a computer, albeit old fashioned and I'm incredibly slow. Probably too slow to be economically viable to anyone else. But I keep on trying.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sosgez, post: 2202775, member: 518889"] No. I have asked, researched, followed, gone to meetings. Its one of the agencies failing me that I mentioned before. Other agencies point me at RNIB and think they are "helping". RNIB doctrine is that blind and partially sighted people can do any job, and list a few anecdotal examples. But employers think otherwise. If you are shopping for beans and see there are 2 cans on the shelf. One normal, one a bit dented and scratched, but at the same price. Which one would you take ? Another issue is that whatever I can do today, some of that will not be possible tomorrow. I have started things in the last year, and then lost functionality, causing me to abandon that task. I had 40 eye injections, very expensive, £813 per shot, just for the drug. During the course of that, my sight got a lot worse, even though its the best treatment available. I had good sugar control, lots of exercise, but still, things deteriorate. I'm glad to still be able to use a computer, albeit old fashioned and I'm incredibly slow. Probably too slow to be economically viable to anyone else. But I keep on trying. [/QUOTE]
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