I'm Michelle Jalowski. This is The Moth.
Right now we're in Boston, a city where over 1,675 people have gone on stage and told a moth story.
Here's one of those tellers, Julie Baker.
When I hear the doorbell ring, I think, seriously?
But it's Jill.
And even death.
wouldn't be a good excuse for blowing off Jill.
So I put on my coat with a hood.
I grab my rolling old lady carriage.
I grab the blind cane and I head downstairs.
There she is, my blind coach.
I didn't seek out a blind coach.
I didn't know that blindness was a sport that required a coach.
But when my neuro-ophthalmologist told me that my MS-related optic nerve damage had crossed over into legal blindness,
I was like, okay, whatever.
I see just as well as I saw yesterday.
And she said she referred me to the Mass Commission for the Blind.
I asked her if she was allowed to do that without my consent.
And she thought I was joking.
I wasn't joking.