Disability
In reply to the discussion: My significant other went blind this week. [View all]renate
(13,776 posts)As awful as this is, thank goodness for modern science. I wonder whether there are technologies that, until now, you've never had to research that might help--computer programs that can read text aloud, for example, or that can convert speech to text. Not knowing what s/he did for employment or for hobbies, I have no idea what you might need, but perhaps there is some hope now that didn't exist just a few years ago.
But that doesn't address the elemental loss of vision, and it sounds like you perhaps had no warning. I hope--and I'm sure--that there are support groups that can help you get through this. I simply cannot imagine what you are going through. Both of you are in my thoughts.
http://www.afb.org/default.aspx
https://nfb.org//
http://www.nei.nih.gov/lowvision/content/resources2.asp