SUNDAY EDITION WITH ANTHONY CORONA
THIS SUNDAY AT 1 PM EASTERN
LOSING SIGHT MIDLIFE
NAVIGATING THE SERVICES, THE GRIEF AND THE ROAD FORWARD
What happens when the life you knew changes in the middle of living it?
This Sunday on Sunday Edition, I sit down with Jennifer Frederick for an open, candid and deeply personal conversation about losing sight in midlife, navigating the maze of services available to newly blind adults, working through grief and frustration, finding the right balance between accepting help and reclaiming independence, and ultimately beginning to come out the other side.
Jennifer Frederick is a midlife professional turned disability rights advocate from New York’s Capital Region.
After a career in insurance and corporate emergency communications, Jennifer lost most of her vision in her early forties as a result of diabetic retinopathy.
She had to rebuild.
Today, Jennifer uses that lived experience as a blind peer supporter, helping other adults navigate benefits, services and the emotional realities that can accompany losing sight.
During our conversation, Jennifer is remarkably open about the struggles.
The uncertainty.
The frustration.
The grief.
The practical challenges of figuring out which services exist and how to access them.
And the sometimes complicated process of learning how to live differently without allowing blindness to become the entirety of who you are.
But we also talk about strength.
Where do you find it when the life you expected suddenly looks very different?
How do you keep moving when you are still grieving what you lost?
And eventually, how do you take everything you learned while finding your own way and use it to make someone else’s road a little easier?
That last question is especially important to Jennifer.
She wants to pay it forward.
And that may be where this conversation leads next.
Jennifer and I are currently discussing the possibility of developing a new podcast under the Sunday Edition Family of Podcasts and Digital Media Content Services devoted specifically to the newly blind experience.
The concept would bring professionals and people with lived experience together to take the journey topic by topic and episode by episode.
Navigating Social Security.
Finding rehabilitation services.
Discovering assistive technology.
Learning orientation and mobility.
Understanding benefits and resources.
Finding peer support.
Dealing with the emotional realities of vision loss.
And tackling all of those questions many of us remember having when we were first dropped into this strange new world and did not yet know what questions we were supposed to ask.
It is still a conversation and a concept in development.
But sometimes the best ideas begin with two people talking about what they wish had existed when they needed it most.
And this Sunday, you will hear where that conversation began.
IN OUR SECOND HOUR
We will also highlight an episode of Take 2 Radio The Remix featuring a conversation with actress, executive producer and activist Deborah Twiss.
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SUNDAY EDITION WITH ANTHONY CORONA
Sunday at 1 PM Eastern
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Sometimes losing sight is only the beginning of the story.
The next chapter is figuring out how to live the life that comes after.
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