My hobbies have been reading, scrapbooking, and sewing. They all kind of require some decent vision to do. I either have to find a new way to do my hobbies or find some new ones. Reading will get better once I obtain a CCTV to zoom everything. That is in the works, and I just need to be patient. However, sewing and scrapbooking require an attention to detail and ability to make things "square". When your world looks like a Salvador Dali painting, it is bit complicated to do anything that requires straight lines of any kind. Sewing, I have adapted some. I have a guide that keeps my seems straight and I do my best when it comes to cutting along lines. The hardest and most frustrating thing is threading my sewing machine or serger. This is the one thing that I get stubborn and try to do and after wrestling with it for 15-20 minutes I break down and ask my daughter to help me. She sits down and does it all in less than a minute. Which is AWESOME, but it really takes me toe to toe with the fact that, no matter what I do, my vision is NOT what it used to be. The challenge is to stay in the gratitude that there are people who are happy to help me and stay away from the despair that my days of 100% self-sufficiency are gone. As for new hobbies, I am thinking skeet shooting, golf, or maybe tennis. No, seriously I need to figure out some hobbies that don't require such heavy weight on sight. Let me know if you think of any.
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