Guide dog Stories

I missed Andrew rather a lot he was my first carer and the man who showed me certain things, which gave me the confidence to self-pleasure, for the first time in my life. Sadly it will be many years before we meet again. His replacement Belinda was more than a little imaginative. I was wary of her at first because she was the first black person I had ever encountered. She was not what was expected from a carer for a blind...

From a very young age, it was obvious that there was a serious problem with my vision. The eye specialist made it quite clear that I would almost certainly be blind within a few years. I had high hopes of a career in journalism, but that idea was never going to happen. I lived at home until I was twenty-five years old, then, at my request, I was allocated a small flat which was warden-controlled. My parents took care of t...