When you start losing your vision, there’s things you expect and things you don’t.
One I didn’t really think about is reading a menu. For most you look at a menu at a restaurant or fast food place pick what looks best and order it.
For me it’s a little more complicated and stressful than that.
If I know I am going somewhere. It’s easy, I can look up the place on my phone and find what I want as well as a backup dish just incase. And from there memorize it, or just repeat it in my head so I don’t forget. Like “breakfast burrito” … “breakfast burrito” ... “breakfast burrito”, okay got it!
Though, if it is something unexpected or unplanned. I can do one of two things I can ask someone do they have blank, or I can use my phone to help me read. Though to be truthful the unexpected mealM or place I don’t know kinda freaks me out as I tense up or panic. I don’t mean to panic, though I do.
I am lucky to have my wife with me who I can turn to and ask questions, as well as my phone for the moments when I am not with her. As a helping hand is one of the most important things.
It’s not the most fun thing in the world but at the end of the day you do have to eat something.
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