My personal journey of low vision and encouraging words for anyone who is facing disability.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
The GPS says it is here and all I see is a field.
My life of driving and getting anywhere is 100% dependence on my GPS. I needed to stop at a store today and so I
called 411. Asked for the listing,
called the listing and asked for a physical address to plug into my GPS. I drove to the directions of this device and
all of a sudden it says “you have reached or destination, on right”. I look over at my right and it is a
field. A FIELD, do you hear me? Like being visually disabled isn’t enough I
have to have a GPS take me out to a field.
Wow! I may be low vision but I
know a field when I see a field and that there is a field. So I drove about a mile farther down the road
thinking maybe the store I am searching for will come into my FIELD of view. Ha. It
was all dirt roads off the frontage road and since I can’t see marque’s or
signs or anything with printed word,
I gave up. I came home later in the day
and looked the location up on Google maps.
I would have never found the driveway
into this place. The moral of this story: even though I am unable to see well my brain seems to think if I
just try hard enough it will work out
in the end. Maybe I need to just resign myself to the fact of internet
shopping. So, if you are ever out and
about and see me flipping the bird at some field, just keep driving and pray
for my sanity. It will get better, it
will.
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