| Description | Interview with Mrs Fozzard, from Blackpool. She talks to Philip Donnellan about her experiences of visual impairment and recounts a story about a pair of glasses she was unsure about wearing. She talks about her determination to remain cheerful, her experience of losing her sight suddenly during the night through retrobular neuritis, and her initial reactions to her disability, her feelings of depression, and her decision to learn braille because of her feeling that she would not see again. She describes having 'light perception' in her left eye, being able to tell whether it is night or day, and being able to see in her dreams. She describes how she felt about blindness and blind people before she lost her sight and her ignorance about 'blind society', and her determination to carry on living, despite her disability, to make efforts to keep herself and her home clean and smart and to maintain her independence and go out by herself. She describes her difficulty maintaining her confidence at navigating amongst other pedestrians and her worries about traffic and the help she had from her husband who helped her to become mobile and to be able to go out to lunch on her own. She goes on to discuss her husband's attitudes towards her disability and his concern that she should be able to be as independent as possible, and talks about not letting other people see when she is upset. She talks about how she likes men to help her across the road (tracks 1-11)
Total: 32.50 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0071280 |