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Who Turned Out The Lights?
Cry. Laugh. Repeat. Who Turned Out the Lights is a ride into darkness, but not to despair. Ron Wilde's loss of sight, foot, family, and life as he knew it is a journey into the unknown, a chronicle surprisingly punctuated with humor, insight, and love.
106 pages, Paperback
First published December 4, 2013
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September 18, 2014
A very interesting and no holes barred memoir.
I have read many memoirs and I can honestly say, none of them have been like this one.
Diagnosed as diabetic aged ten the author’s parents, ignored the condition, even though his father was a diabetic also. This lack of concern carried on through his life until the disease started to affect him, in ways he could not ignore.
This story is a no-holes-barred honest chronicle of Ronald’s life. He tells his story in a very frank, matter of fact and sometimes humorous way, and gives the reader an incredible insight into what it is like to lose your eye sight.
His story is not told as a sad one, there are many different facets to it as he rationally discusses the impact his life had on his loved ones, and his relationships. Moreover, it is a unique insight into actually coming to terms with the loss of your sight, and the obstacles both mentally and physically which have to be overcome during the process.
As his diabetes worsens other factors affect his life, and the book appears to finish quite abruptly, however this is because, I suspect, there is more to come…
I have read many memoirs and I can honestly say, none of them have been like this one.
Diagnosed as diabetic aged ten the author’s parents, ignored the condition, even though his father was a diabetic also. This lack of concern carried on through his life until the disease started to affect him, in ways he could not ignore.
This story is a no-holes-barred honest chronicle of Ronald’s life. He tells his story in a very frank, matter of fact and sometimes humorous way, and gives the reader an incredible insight into what it is like to lose your eye sight.
His story is not told as a sad one, there are many different facets to it as he rationally discusses the impact his life had on his loved ones, and his relationships. Moreover, it is a unique insight into actually coming to terms with the loss of your sight, and the obstacles both mentally and physically which have to be overcome during the process.
As his diabetes worsens other factors affect his life, and the book appears to finish quite abruptly, however this is because, I suspect, there is more to come…
July 15, 2015
Ron's story is amazing. Negelected diabetes causes him to go blind, have a foot amputated, require a kidney transplant. He loses family, possessions, an entire life. Yet he keeps moving forward, laughing at himself even while providing some gruesome detail of his journey through VA hospitals and nursing homes. He has no self-pity though. Hard to put down due to wanting to know what happens next.
It's a different kind of narrative, partly due to the fact he wrote it using speech to text software on a computer.
Merged review:
Hearing this book is the pefect way to experience this compeling blind man's story. Ron Wilde wrote it using speech to text software. Hearing the audiobook version feels authentic.
It's a different kind of narrative, partly due to the fact he wrote it using speech to text software on a computer.
Merged review:
Hearing this book is the pefect way to experience this compeling blind man's story. Ron Wilde wrote it using speech to text software. Hearing the audiobook version feels authentic.
April 22, 2015
This book deals with a lot of misfortune, but with a lot of humor!
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