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lightreads) wrote2020-02-24 09:20 am
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My Eyes Have a Cold Nose by Hector Chevigny
My Eyes Have a Cold Nose
DNF. Acquired blindness memoir published in the 1940's. This is a good book, and my abandonment of it is entirely about me not getting anything out of disability memoirs right now. Though if you want a thoughtful, careful discussion of how the world views disability – and basically none of what he describes has changed in 75 years – this is a good place to go. One thing that has changed is the physical cost of failed retinal detachment surgery. He was in the hospital for three months. I was in and out in a day, and yeah my recovery was really hard, but still. Three months.
DNF. Acquired blindness memoir published in the 1940's. This is a good book, and my abandonment of it is entirely about me not getting anything out of disability memoirs right now. Though if you want a thoughtful, careful discussion of how the world views disability – and basically none of what he describes has changed in 75 years – this is a good place to go. One thing that has changed is the physical cost of failed retinal detachment surgery. He was in the hospital for three months. I was in and out in a day, and yeah my recovery was really hard, but still. Three months.