This book, drawn from nearly a decade of experience of sight loss, asserts that this fear must be addressed as a priority, and rehabilitation needs a new approach by service providers for users and significant others, enabling - not disabling - those with altered abilities.

The author recently spent some time as an inpatient at his local hospital. As someone with no sight at all he found the experience initially alarming, often frustrating, and an exercise in the isolation of being blind despite the best efforts of the staff.

This book, drawn from nearly a decade of experience of sight loss, asserts that this fear must be addressed as a priority, and rehabilitation needs a new approach by service providers for users and significant others, enabling - not disabling - those with altered abilities.

Based on the author’s lived experience of ten years of blindness, it documents a decade of chronic indifference, ignorance, incomprehension, and refusal to move beyond inappropriate stereotypes he has encountered.

Losing your sight is dreadful. Losing it entirely is devastating. Losing your wife and best friend - so there are no eyes at home- pushes the bounds of endurance. Losing your favourite dog is just careless. In such a situation, you either laugh or cry.

This book is intended as some kind of comfort and guide in the new and frightening world experienced by recently diagnosed individuals who are facing the unknown territory of vision loss.