Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!260!204!Ann.Parsons From: Ann.Parsons@f204.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Ann Parsons) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: New on the Net Message-ID: <12522@bunker.UUCP> Date: 27 Jun 90 20:30:11 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: Ann.Parsons@f204.n260.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:260/204 - Flower City Central, Chili NY Lines: 39 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 8937 Hi Gary, My name is Ann, and I am not deaf but blind. I have a dear friend who has your disease. She has had it for some time now and she knows a lot more about it than I do. Unfortunately, Lynne doesn't have a computer so can't get on here. But, if you will send me your address via net mail, (if you don't want it echoed), (ask Bill, he'll know what to do), I will send her copy of your letter and she can write to you. I watched Lynne the other night at a party. Many of her friends were there, and they seemed to be good people, but because they were older, they just didn't seem to know how to communicate with her. I spent most of the evening interpreting for her in my very, very, s-l-o-w sign. Lynne was the woman who taught me to sign. It was great because she can talk to me and tell me what to do, yet I can sign to her and most of the time she understands me. She gets a kick out of me rubbing my fingers over my palm vigorously, erasing mistakes. I even go through a pantamime of blowing the stuff from the eraser off my palm. She laughs every time! Do you sign? Lynne says that she was so tense when she first learned that she could hardly make sense of it all! She also said that she was really, really, really, scared. The only thing that keeps her going is her faith in God. Do you have faith? Well, enough talk. I will give your letter to Lynne as soon as she returns from getting her hearing-ear/seeing-eye dog. Take care and God bless you. We all care. TAlk to Vixen, Ann S,Shiela and Ron Rothenburg. I am sure you've got replies coming from them soon as they see your note here. See you on-line. Ann P. -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!260!204!Ann.Parsons Internet: Ann.Parsons@f204.n260.z1.fidonet.org