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#124527 - 01/08/06 11:11 AM
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Registered: 01/07/06
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Edited by nuttyraisin (01/08/06 11:12 AM)
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#124528 - 01/08/06 12:27 PM
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Registered: 03/05/05
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Loc: Romulus
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Lisa said:
You give alot but you can get so much back from it to.
Until the backstage stuff kicks you...my mother quit Guiding cause the people in charge of the council or whatever were being idiots and gave her unorganized books (she was the treasurer) + expecting her to do the job of 3 people (all when it was tax season and she had her tax rep job too). At that point, she wasn't having any fun so she quit. It's a shame, cause she loved it
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#124532 - 01/10/06 10:08 PM
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Registered: 01/01/06
Posts: 1333
Loc: Warsaw, Indiana, USA
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yeah, now if I could only get financial aid, and get a REAL job I'd be happy. I don't know, driving will open up alot of doors for me though, I was offered a job once taking care of disabled adults at the Cardinal Center (helping them get dressed and off to work, cooking for them, etc) a houseparent basically, but they told me in the interview I needed a valid drivers license  so I'm hoping in August I'll be able to get that job.
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#124533 - 01/10/06 11:34 PM
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Silent One
Registered: 01/01/06
Posts: 1333
Loc: Warsaw, Indiana, USA
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angelwings said:
Glad u got ur license congrads.I must b visually impaired to couldnt see the picture on that license.  I didnt know they even had a visually impaired license pretty cool.Unless it has that bumper car effect.N that won't b good. 
yeah, its called the Bioptic Driving program for the legally blind.
They have many different options, but the glasses I use are the Beecher Mirage system. I have the 5.5X magnification ones. With the Beecher Mirage, I can see 20/40 at distances of 8 ft (or more) away, although I find I can't focus anything in closer then 20..
In order to pass the eye test, I had to first be evaluated by my eye specialist Dr Windsor, and then he sends off a report to the BMV, and they send me a letter back saying if I'm approved or not. Once I was approved, I took that approval letter down to the BMV, and I took the written test just like everyone else does.
In order to pass that visual test, I had to meet the following criteria:
Visual acuity through the carrier eyewear is no less than 20/200 in one eye.
Visual Acuity through the bioptic telescope is no less than 20/40.
so instead of taking the eye test at the BMV, I take a different eye test at my eye doctors office before they even approve me for the program, so it works out good.
The only reason I'm even able to do this now, is because the Beecher Mirage 5.5X system is now accepted for bioptic driving, it didn't used to be 6 years ago and couldn't pass the eye exam years ago because of that. So I'm lucky I got to do this.  It used to be, only 4x telescopes were allowed, and I only had 20/60 with the 4X system, so I was not able to start drivers training before now.
I'm now supposed to take 30 hrs of "behind the wheel" training before I go for my road test, but I'm way beyond that now. I keep having "drifting" and steering and breaking problems.. Its just because I've never driven a car before, and my instructor assures me I can do it, its just going to take practice. I'm just having "new driver" issues right now she says. She thinks part of my drifting problem is I'm not looking far enough down the road, I'm looking at the hood of the car rather then way off down the road like I should be, but she says its just going to take practice to be able to do that and spot signs and all that stuff..
They say they have caps for close distances (like for the computer) but Voc Rehab won't pay for those, and my eye doctor doesn't recommend them anyway for some reason. We tried a new pair of glasses just for the computer, but they were too strong, so I have to go back at some point, but I have to wait until I get a "computer job" before vocational rehabilitation will pay for them... stupid, eh?
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#124534 - 01/22/06 04:28 PM
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Registered: 04/21/05
Posts: 2412
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Thats cool stuff Bubazoo. I wondered how that would work I dint think I wanted to meet u on the road doing the bumper car thing. I had no idea they had that option. Hope u can get that job now.It is a great job.
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