There is a great reason why there is this saying in my language that ' the eye is King' because of its uniqueness and important function in our body. I have not imagined myself to be blind before but I have had a very close person to me in the past who was blind. This had always made me appreciate my sight more as I will never want to put myself in a condition of losing my sight.
My late grandmother was blind, I was too young to know or try to find out the cause of her blindness but was told by my dad that they were unable to find a cure after they had visited many health facilities.
I always imagine how she usually copes with the condition of her eyes, we do aid her movement around the house and I remember praying that one day she could regain her sight.
She wasn't born blind, but like I said I never knew the cause. She made me realize how much difficult it is to be without the King of our body parts, Eyes. As she will struggle to move around in the house and do her basic activities.
Now let's imagine I'm without sight for a day, what will my day be like?
Usually, my day starts anything from 5 am, when I wake up, first is to look beside me and check on my baby, to see how he is doing. If he is awake, which he is most of the time, I will carry him to breastfeed him which by now I will realize I could not see.
I will try very hard to use my eyes and shout out to my husband for help and then I will feel terrible for not being able to see anything.
I may start imagining how to bathe my baby and care for him for the day, I will have to talk my husband through the process of bathing him and this will break my heart because he will find it very difficult to handle him.
We might struggle with this but after this, I can have him put on my lap in other to bread feed him, this will make him sleep again for at least forty-five minutes.
I will tell hubby, this is our new reality and somehow we have to live through it. Before my kid wakes up I will have to quickly take my bath with the help of hubby of course.
Just after this, I will think of what we will eat for breakfast, this will make me very sad as I miss my sight again, I know hubby will do terrible work in the kitchen, he might even decides to order us some breakfast from outside as he can't cook to save his own life 😆.
After managing to take brake fast, I will probably be depressed and retire to my room to reflect on how this happened, what I do wrong to might have resulted in losing my sight, and what I could have done better to not have lost it.
I will conclude that there is probably nothing that I could have done better as I never put my sight at risk. I know I don't joke with eating healthy foods, I exercise regularly and don't exposed my sight to harmful substance.
I will reflect more on appreciating my sight and since this will all ends in just 24 hours it will make me anxious about the time. I could imagine myself asking hubby to check the time every few minutes and feel so much relief when the miserable 24 hours are over.
Hubby will be so worried about the situation that he won't be able to leave us and go to work for the day. He will feel terrible for me and I might end up telling him to stop worrying and that I will be fine.
I will be angry but try to hide my pains and anger from him, as I will hate to be a burden to him and our baby.
I will terribly miss my hive activities as I won't be able to post or do any engagement. After this whole thing, I will realize that their is a big difference in knowing how people without sight feels when one eyes are lost compare to being close to a blind person like when I was close with my late grandmother and this will even make me to be more compassionate toward non-sighted people.
This is my response to med-hive weekly discussion and this week's topic which can be found Here is vision and eye health