Mike’s Moment of Sight: A Little Bit of Vision… Although Mike could “see” from the moment the bandages were removed from his eye (below), he still had trouble identifying objects, especially stationary ones. Mike tells this story of a walk down an unfamiliar street in Barcelona, Spain: “I picked my way through some street construction. I saw a fluorescent green object in my path and tapped it with my cane. It wasn’t hard like a sign so I tapped it a bit harder as I still couldn’t figure out visually what it was. I was startled as a burst of Spanish profanity came from the workman bent over digging out a hole in the sidewalk. He didn’t take too kindly to me poking him in the behind with my cane. A little bit of vision can be dangerous sometimes.” (May, 2004)

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