The Blind Sailor

 Sunday October 13th, a reasonably good start last week, a lot of people are not aware if you`re blind, there are a lot of selfish people around who don`t know or don`t understand or even don`t care sometimes. A few weeks ago somebody left out a shopping trolley in the comunal area, I did`nt see it and ended up tripping over it, the handle caught in my transplanted kidney, not sure if i`ve mentiond it but I have recentley had a kidney transplant, it was very painfull and resulted in my going in and out of hospital for a month having tests because the kidney stopped working properly. The good news now is that it`s slowly getting back to how it should be. So I am now back to once a month hospital visits which is good news. I now have to be extra aware because of what happend, it could have been a lot worse but thankfully it wasn`t. I know if i`m going to have a good day when I can wake up in the morning and make myself a cup of tea or coffee without scoulding myself, if I can do that...

 Good morning everybody. Welcome to my blog The Blind Sailior. I am blind and an ex sailor, I served in the Royal Navy. I have decided to chronicle my life since becoming blind and take you through my life as it is with the helpfulness and unhelpfulness of the general public and the professionals in the hope that my experiences may help others. I shall review places I visit and tell you what it`s like for blind people. I currently live in a communal block of flats in the south of England, one of forty flats run by a local housing association it`s quite comfortable but for a blind person it`s not safe. I`ve had one bad fall resulting in my recent transplanted kidney to not work properly, the fall was due to a trolley being left in the corridor which I then tripped over, this is down to peoples lack of awareness. If you are blind or partially sighted you are probably having the same experiences as I am having and there`s nothing you can do about it. My life as a blind person is a cha...