GGreat things about being blind. Royal wedding watching?

II'm not a huge royal follower or royal watcher. II don't care much about a dress, auniform, a look. I do love music and sound and the sounds of bells. But, I was very happy the other day to discover that the royal wedding was audio described by accessible media here in Canada. On a channel called the accessible channel. 888 for me and many of you. Recently, I have been hired as a freelance reporter for them and did my first story a couple of weeks ago. The stories are of things interesting to their viewers. Everything on that channel is audio described meaning visual things are inserted into the sound track. I didn't get up in the middle of the night to watch. But, when I did get up, I turned it on to check and see what it was like. It was good if you like that type of thing. The best thing about it though was that a person who is blind could watch it on their own at the same time as everyone else and talk about it around the water cooler later. I smiled when I thought of scaring people by saying, "Yes I really liked the audio description of the dress!"
To find out more about accessible media, go to
www.tactv.ca

Great things about being blind. Seeing Henry VIII.

I am working on a story about my work as a music therapist with people who have dementia and other disabilities. It reminded me of many wonderful, funny and touching stories for my blog. There was a woman who had dementia and also had very vivid and interesting visual halucinations. she would think that she saw people and would get quite anxious and upset if others could not see them too. I am sure this is amazingly distressing. One day, I was sitting playing piano when she came up and tapped me on the shoulder. "Excuse me dear. Is that Henry the eighth standing in the doorway?" "I'm not sure who it is," I could answer truthfully. "I can't see anything at all. I'm blind. But, if it is him, I suggest you don't marry him." she laughed and she did not become agitated and Henry seemed to have disappeared.