I’ve done a lot of reading of journal entries from late 2004 and early 2005. Sometimes, it makes me feel strange that this anger, fear and resentment happened only one year ago. That by January 1, I had no idea what the second half of the year would be like, but it’d most likely not [...]
Archive for December, 2005
Progress Report on 2005
Posted in Memories on December 31, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Updates from “De Boomgaard”
Posted in Personal, Training Home on December 24, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I had my admission interview at “De Boomgaard” on Wednesday. Thony went with me and that was a good thing cause sometimes I found it hard to explain stuff. First, Arda (some important folk there, don’t know what her function’s called) asked me for my personal info, like date of birth, etc. She also asked [...]
Last Week of Rehab
Posted in Personal, Rehab on December 23, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I’m almost completely done with rehab – in fact, the only things I still have to do are some occupational therapy on Wednesday and the CPH training on January 6. That means that I did a lot of evaluating over the last week, not only cause most rehab folks asked me what I’d learnt from [...]
Thoughts on Blind Children’s Quirks and Behaviour Issues
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, Blindness on December 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, I read the article The Great Tactile Defensiveness Scare by Christine Faltz. The essence of the article is to warn parents and professionals against attributing every quirk a child has to their blindness. The example she gives is professionals getting real concerned when a blind child doesn’t like a particular texture, while every child [...]
Updates on “De Boomgaard”
Posted in Personal, Training Home on December 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I decided I plan to go to “De Boomgaard”. I think many fellow blind people won’t understand my decision – at least, when I wrote about the question to the BlindKid and ROP-support lists, I got all replies wondering if the programme was mandatory and reassuring me that I could be independent. My situation [...]
Thoughts about My CPH Case
Posted in Blindness, Personal, Rehab on December 10, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
On Monday, I had a very difficult discussion with Kira. Well actually it didn’t really get anywhere. I tried my CPH presentation on her, which failed totally cause I got stuck almost immediately. I was so confuxsed or something like that, which is strange since I think I should know what is at least important [...]
Rants on a Frustrating Fifteenth Week at Rehab
Posted in Personal, Rehab on December 3, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
This week was pretty frustrating at rehab. Monday and Friday were good, and so was most of Tuesday, but Tuesday evening and Wednesday and Thursday were bad. I had something called an “experience trip” on Wednesday and Thursday, but none of the activities were particularly new or challenging. All we did was having to [...]
