HollyAlonzo – Never Giving Up Hope

Now that I am using a braille display full-time, and nothing else, I am getting better at operating the PC on my own again.

With speech, it was no problem  In fact, everyone came to me with computer problems because I could do almost everything on a computer that didn’t require vision.  When the hearing  started going, so did my computer skills.

I hated braille—mainly because I am so slow at it.  But using it on a daily bases, I am getting just a tad faster. 

Using a braille display on the PC is harder than speech, to me.  Things are arranged a little differently and it takes a second or two to go back and forth from the keyboard to the display.  It just takes longer, and well, we all know I’m not that patient.

I had Edwarrd do a lot of my tasks for me on the internet because Internet Explore was just too hard.  But, I’m getting better! 

I’ve been posting my own blogs and doing a few Google searches.  Now I’m about to start working on changing a few things on the blog.  I do not need the donations anymore, so I need to make people aware that I got what I needed, and not leave this old information up there.  It’s also time to push my book a little harder.

I don’t need donations, but I do need funds to help pay for travel and lodging to and from L.A. since I’ll be going back several times within the next year.  I will try my hardest to sell the rest of the books I have, and use that money  to do this

So things are going well.  I am recovering nicely, and I’m adjusting to this deafblindness well.  I am improving  on my braille skills, and not freaking out quite as much over the silence.  I still get a wave of anxiety sometimes, but it’s getting better.  From here, I can only move forward.