Hello World! A few days ago, I had remembered my medical diagnosis of osteoarthritis conducted at my local medical insurance clinic a few years before I became totally BLIND, and am now noticing how my cognition skills are being affected in a negative way.
When I had eyesight, as I remember, I pushed my cognition skills to my maximum potential, making myself to MASTER multiple fields of computer science and in some other fields of science. I remember mastering GNU/Linux development & cybersecurity fields, in which I felt I was the “elite” or “on top of the world”, as I was accomplishing tasks I never would have thought as ever accomplishing. Surprisingly, even though I was already permanently-disabled, I was sponsored by computer & electrical engineering companies, worldwide. However, my global recognition began falling when my Filipino dad in the USA became ill, later deceased, in which I was not allowed to speak with him, affecting my emotions, in which, 13 months after his death, I became totally BLIND. My diagnosis of osteoarthritis happened shortly after my late dad became ill, but I did not begin experiencing my cognition skills degrading until two years after I’m totally BLIND. — I really miss my eyesight, but there is nothing I can do to have it back.
Technically, I am scientific proof that my human brain can outperform its human body, as I have achieved my “maximum potential” as a human being. Now with non-reversible, non-curable osteoarthritis, my human brain is losing control of my body’s motor functions, greatly reducing my cognition skills. Unfortunately, medical implants are not a solution due to my age.
Though I have made many post-blindness achievements, such as self-learning the basics of the Swift programming language, self-learning to yo-yo, and how to touch-type in Braille, I’m quickly noticing a severe degrade of my cognition skills. One such experience is my yo-yoing has become more difficult, solely because the joints in my arm, wrist, hand & fingers, in addition to my standing posture, causing my basic throws & catches to fail; even practicing with my “training” yo-yo has become a difficult task. Also, my lifelong skill of 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing is quickly degrading, convincing me with the fact, I will soon no longer be able to touch-type on a QWERTY keyboard; that’s why I had invested in a Braille keyboard. There are many tasks my brain still knows how to do, but osteoarthritis greatly hinders those abilities.
Now I understand why mostly senior citizens occupy golf courses and not bowling alleys, both requiring desired body posture motor control, yet golfing offers more chances than bowling. But, when it comes to blindness mixed with osteoarthritis, cognition degrades, unfortunately.
When I searched Google for “BLIND osteoarthritis” hobbies, I don’t find any of interest, compared with performing a Google search with the terms separately. Sure enough, there are hobbies for BLIND persons AND hobbies for persons with arthritis, but few to none for BLIND persons with osteoarthritis; if there were, those hobbies will not be financially-affordable.
As I recall from my past research into the hobbies done in assisted-living, senior-citizen housing, I’ve previously noticed the in-house nurses have to frequently retrain their patients on tasks, such as hobbies, as frequent as daily basis. I have already met persons that have already retired from glorious careers, and now resemble an animated vegetable. I never was taught in my K-12 education about “old age” lifestyles.
There is no cure for osteoarthritis, yet, if there were, it would not be financially-affordable to me. When I did some quick Twitter searches about osteoarthritis, or arthritis in general, I have noticed there are treatments available, but not any hope of any cures, but my vision-impairment is more priority to me.
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