5/27/2023 0 Comments Cockeyed memoir![]() ![]() The first time, it was hard, because she's like, 'That's your kid and you're her father, but it's my kid too and a blind man wants to take her for a walk.' " "I can't just say, 'I'm comfortable enough with walking Tess today.' Tracy had to be comfortable too. ![]() That responsibility made his relationship with his wife more complex. But now I had to learn to be responsible for somebody else." Embarrassment and boredom were my two main enemies, and as soon as I learned to deal with those two issues, blindness was just a mobility issue. … InĬockeyed, the cure for blindness was me learning to risk things for my own independence. It's not like you change diapers because it's your turn and Tess has to wear an upside down diaper just to prove I can do it. We did it because we felt that Tess didn't have to suffer for me to express my independence. "I had to be the breadwinner and Tracy did all the classically maternal, fifties house-mom stuff. When Tess arrived, we had to go to this fifties model,"he says. The arrival of their daughter turned their world upside down, making his role even harder to navigate. It was about new boundaries of responsibility." And I realized that everything Tracy and I were going through was just a hyperbole of what other new parents were going through. How am I going to do all this? It was overwhelming. "I could foresee so many things that were going to happen. He began to write the book when his wife, Tracy, was pregnant. ![]()
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