My name is Graham Isidore.

I have a progressive eye disease called Caritoconis.

And maying I'm losing my vision has been hard, but explaining it to other people has been harder.

Lately, I've been trying to talk about it.

Short-sighted is an attempt to explain what vision loss feels like by exploring how it sounds.

By sharing my story, we get into all the things you don't see about hidden disabilities.

Short-sighted from CBC's personally, available now.

This is a CBC original podcast.

The darkest feelings, like the feelings that scared me were the feelings that I wasn't sure if I wanted that baby.

From CBC, this is Love Me, a show about the messiness of human connection.

Episode 4. Falling.

Music Episode 4, Falling.

Brian and I had just gotten engaged, and it was a total well-wined romance. I mean, we spent a ton of time on the phone and we'd sent about a thousand emails. But the actual time face to face that we

spent before we decided to get married was about three weeks. I quit my job and went to work with him.

And, you know, it was while we were working together one day that she showed up.

She was totally beautiful.

I mean, she had this long, dark hair and these almond-shaped eyes. And she just knew what

she was doing as well. I mean, she would kind of like bat her eyelashes. She had these ridiculously

long eyelashes. She would like bat them. And when she saw him, they just had this moment where

like time stopped. They were just looking at each other. And then she saw him, they just had this moment where, like, time stopped.

They were just looking at each other.

And then she kind of, like, sashayed past him in this little way that she had.

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