Case Study: Tom Canavan
What I have is AMD – age-related macular degeneration. In 2004 the surgeon told me he had a friend in NCBI and I got involved with the Iona Centre, where different groups go for different activities.
NCBI have given me another life. I was worried about coming here I have to admit. I suppose I wasn’t willing to accept that my eyesight was leaving me. What was I going to do being a blind person? Couldn’t read or play golf anymore, look at the television, drive. But the whole positive scene is set by the team down there. The atmosphere is electrifying. It’s very jovial. At 80 years of age I’m not far away from being computer literate. That’s down to NCBI. I can now send emails so I can contact my family all over the world. I think that’s a marvellous asset to my life.