Month: September 2018

Nystagmus Network Open Day 2018

 

Even though my abseil for nystagmus research has had to be postponed (it’ll now be on 21st October), nystagmus has still been the big topic this month, because on Saturday I attended the annual Open Day held by the Nystagmus Network.

This was my second time going to this event, following my experience last year when I gave my first public talk. So this year was much more relaxed, because I didn’t have to do anything! And it was a wonderful day, so I thought I’d give an overview of how it went.

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Raised by Visionally Impaired Parents: An Interview with Glen from Well Eye Never!

Here’s my most recent guest post to share with you all. This time I was interviewed by Chelsey from VI Blind Resources about what it’s like for me to have visually impaired parents. I hope you enjoy reading it! This brings me up to date at the moment, but I have another interview with another blogger coming soon, so keep an eye out for that.

While I’m here, thank you so much to everyone who has donated to my charity abseil and/or shared my tweets about it. It’s all very much appreciated. I’m now up to £765, thanks in particular to an astonishing £250 (plus £62.50 Gift Aid) donation from TV’s own Richard Osman this morning, which I’m still in shock about! That is extremely generous, so massive thanks to you sir! Everyone who has donated is credited on my Thank You page, including quite a few fellow bloggers now.

There are still 3 days to go before the abseil takes place, so if you want to give me your support before then, you can donate at JustGiving.com/WellEyeNever, or in the UK you can also text WENA80 plus a space and your amount to 70070 (e.g. WENA80 £5). You can donate £1, £2, £3, £4, £5 or £10 by text message. Thanks for your support! 🙂

VIBlindResources

by Chelsey Zumpano

Glin is a fellow Blogger and YouTuber, he’s also visionally impaired, but unlike me he has been raised by parents who also happend to be visionally impaired. So I asked him some questions about what it was like growing up.

1 Do you have the same visual impairment as your parents and either way what is the name/names of it?

I have the same conditions as my mother – aniridia and nystagmus. Aniridia means I don’t have an iris (the coloured circle) in my eye, so my eyes don’t adjust to changes in light properly. As a result, I’m very sensitive to glare and I find it hard to adjust in the dark. Nystagmus means my eyes shake and wobble all the time. This makes it harder for me to focus on things, unless they’re close up or enlarged.

My mother’s sight got a lot worse over…

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An Interview with Glen Well Eye Never (Guest Blog Post #3)

Yesterday’s reblog of a guest post went down very well, so here’s another – an interview with me on Amanda Gene’s blog, the first time I’ve been interviewed by another blogger (but already not the last). So do check that out, and Amanda’s blog in general. And in return I’ve also done an interview with Amanda on my blog too, so do give that a read as well. Thank you to Amanda for featuring me! 🙂

P.S. While I’m here, there’s just a week to go until my charity abseil for nystagmus research. So if you can sponsor me it would be very much appreciated, while I try and psyche myself up for the big leap!

Amanda Gene

Hi Everyone, I got the pleasure of interviewing my friend Glen. He is the fantastic blogger and YouTuber who runs Well Eye Never. Many thanks to Glen for allowing me to interview him and for allowing him to interview me in return. Don’t forget to check out his website 🙂

  1. What is your name?
    Glen Turner
  2. Age?
    In a few days time I’ll be 35 years old.
  3. Who has inspired you the most in life and your blogging?
    My parents also have sight loss like myself, and have always encouraged and supported me to achieve whatever I want to do. At the school for the visually impaired I went to, the teachers there were also very supportive and really helped me to grow in confidence. My friends also mean a lot to me and inspire me, of course. And the blogging community has been so welcoming and supportive of my…

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Celebrating Diversity Amongst Bloggers — Post 6

Recently I’ve been invited to do a number of interviews with other bloggers, which has been very flattering. I’ve promoted them on social media and in my favourites posts, and linked to them on my blogger collaborations page, but it occurs to me that I should reblog them as well, to help draw attention to them and give a bit more promotion to the lovely bloggers in question.

So this is the first post, one in a series running on Kel’s wonderful blog Consider Yourself Warned. Check out all the posts in his “Celebrating Diversity Amongst Bloggers” series, as there are a great mix of people featured. Thank you Kel! 🙂

Consider Yourself Warned...

Post 6 comes from Glen. I actually found Glen on Twitter when reaching out for people to partake in this project — I guess it’s working!! Despite not being a blogger, Glen is very active on Twitter, and I felt that his story, told in the below post, is very apt for this project.

*NOTE* After scheduling this post, I realised that Glen does in fact have a blog, which I have taken some time to read and enjoy. For whatever reason, I didn’t amend this article to reflect this; the post was updated on 21st July to include his blog link.

My name is Glen, I’m 34 years old, and I live in London, having moved here a year and a half ago.

I am visually impaired as a result of 2 conditions. Aniridia means I have no iris, the coloured part of my eye, and so I’m unable…

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August 2018 Favourites

It’s now time to do my August Favourites post and video, to bring myself up to date, before I get into an eventful September. August was again busy on the social media front, and there was important stuff going on at home too. But I also had time to go out and do a nice variety of things as well. So it was another productive and enjoyable month, and I hope you enjoy reading about it.

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Blogger Interview – Amanda Gene

This is a new type of post for me – an interview exchange with another blogger! Amanda Gene came to me with the idea, having interviewed some other bloggers already, and I was of course very flattered and happy to take part!

Amanda has already published her interview with me, so do go and check that out:

An Interview With Glen

I’d love to do more posts like this too. I think it’s a really nice way to learn about other people, for the same reason that tag posts are so enjoyable. Plus it’s very important to support and promote each other in the blogging community, especially as disabled bloggers get overlooked somewhat (which is why I’ve created lists of bloggers who post about sight loss, disability, London & entertainment). So if anybody wants to do an exchange of Q&As like this, feel free to get in touch, either via Facebook or Twitter messages, or emailing welleyenever@icloud.com

Anyway, here is the interview I did with Amanda. I hope you enjoy it. Do give her a follow if you can, all of her social links are at the end of the post. Thank you so much to Amanda for featuring me on her blog and for answering my questions here as well! She gives great advice on blogging and interacting with disabled people, and it’s really interesting to get an insight into her disability and the things she enjoys.

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July 2018 Favourites

Time for another monthly favourites post and video, looking back at July. Things were very busy and successful on the blog and social media this month, I enjoyed some fun social events, museum visits and other entertainment, and I even got a bit sporty for once, all while enjoying the sweltering heatwave. So it was a pretty good month, and I hope you enjoy my review of it.

And if you do enjoy reading about the things I get up to, I would love it if you would consider sponsoring my charity abseil in September. That would mean a lot to me. A massive thank you to my amazing sponsors so far! I’ll keep updating that shoutouts page as donations come in, including links for fellow bloggers, so do chip in if you want a mention. You’ll also get mentions in my videos as well, as a couple of people have done in this case. Quite a few people have donated since I filmed the video last week!

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