Monday, May 6, 2013

Sight and the true meaning.



To be shortsighted one may be thoughtless, unthinking, short-term, short-range, limited, restricted, nearsighted, or myopic; me on my good days, ha.

Sight is to view, a spectacle, prospect, picture, scene, vista, have vision, display, notice, spot, espy, see glimpse, observe, vision or eyesight.



But to be sightless is to be blind or unsighted.

To be legally blind is to be:

“When are you Legally Blind

Vision and Eye Care


By - 2007-12-06

Approximately ten percent of those deemed legally blind, by any measure, have no vision. The rest have some vision, from light perception alone to relatively good acuity. Low vision is sometimes used to describe visual acuities from 20/70 to 20/200.

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Blindness - The condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.
Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness.
Total blindness is the complete lack of form and light perception and is clinically recorded as NLP, an abbreviation for no light perception.
Blindness is frequently used to describe severe visual impairment with residual vision. Those described as having only "light perception" can see no more than the ability to tell light from dark. A person with only light projection can tell the general direction of a light source.
In order to determine which people may need special assistance because of their visual disabilities, various governmental jurisdictions have formulated more complex definitions referred to as legal blindness.
In North America and most of Europe, legal blindness is defined as visual acuity (vision) of 20/200 (6/60) or less in the better eye with best correction possible. This means that a legally blind individual would have to stand 20 feet (6 m) from an object to see it with the same degree of clarity as a normally sighted person could from 200 feet (60 m).
In many areas, people with average acuity who nonetheless have a visual field of less than 20 degrees (the norm being 180 degrees) are also classified as being legally blind.
Approximately ten percent of those deemed legally blind, by any measure, have no vision. The rest have some vision, from light perception alone to relatively good acuity. Low vision is sometimes used to describe visual acuities from 20/70 to 20/200.
By the 10th Revision of the WHO International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death, low vision is defined as visual acuity of less than 6/18, but equal to or better than 3/60, or corresponding visual field loss to less than 20 degrees, in the better eye with best possible correction.
Blindness is defined as visual acuity of less than 3/60, or corresponding visual field loss to less than 10 degrees, in the better eye with best possible correction.


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Low vision is described as: “Definition: Vision loss that cannot be corrected by ordinary eyeglasses, contact lenses, medication or surgery. A person with low vision has extremely limited sight that interferes with daily activities.
Low vision should not be confused with blindness. People with low vision have some useful vision which can often be improved with low vision aids. Visual impairment may be mild or severe. Low vision usually results in reduced central or reading vision, but may also result from decreased side (peripheral) vision, a loss of color vision, or an inability to properly adjust to light, contrast or glare.
Many aids are available to help people with low vision including magnifiers, reading glasses and closed-circuit television devices.”
Thanks to this site:
http://vision.about.com/od/eyediseasesandconditions/g/Low_Vision.htm
Today was not a good day vision wise for me.
Rather early in the morning when I prepared my odd beverage to take my second doses of medications, weird by most standards I suspect, low sodium V8 with club soda, lemon juice and a few splashes of hot sauce, before I had a chance to sip the concoction down I knocked the full unbreakable cylinder holder off of the counter pouring right down the side of my white cabinet onto my white ceramic tile floor, happy the container didn’t break, at least!
The result was that not only over a waterfall effect down the stark white cabinets and dishwasher, but slightly inside of each of the six foot area that they encompassed, and yes of course the floor beneath! No fooling! Mastery or messiness and a GREAT BIG YUCK, to boot!
I started to cry, but realized that accomplishes not-a-thing, and Hubby was outside at the time with our loyal and loving companion Skipper, and I really felt that I could try and get as much up as possible before he felt the need to help me. And I think I did, until he came in and SAW that there was much that I had missed, well… when you can’t see peripherally, and one eye is legally blind altogether now with low vision creeping nastily as an added a traction… well, must I?
You more than get the idea and I wish I didn’t.
Of course this experience was not earth shattering it was more embarrassing than anything else, but Hubby does understand.
It’s just that daily these things happen and the only thing that resonates in my brain is, “Don’t cry over spilt milk!”
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/don%27t+cry+over+spilt+milk.html
And “don’t make mountains out of molehills!”
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/make+a+mountain+out+of+a+molehill
Yep.
Not a life and death situation, unless it happens out in the world and we all know the feeling of dying of embarrassment.
Sure you do and I do too, especially when I have had major spasms out there… but I am still here and so are you, and ain’t that special?
Sure is.
On that note of the mundane and rather tame, with no one to really blame, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?!

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