Sudden Blindness

You know I was going along not too bad at first. In fact, I was reading a book in 1942, The Rains Came, and I turned the page, it was page 63 and everything went blank so I thought my eyes were a bit tired so I put down the book and laid down and went off to sleep and the next morning all I could tell is that it was daylight. So a couple of fellas helped me out to the roll call and then they took me to see Dr. Crawford and Crawford said, “I don’t know what we can do for you Harrison,” he says, “all I can tell you is we can’t do nothing for your eyes but all I can tell you is to take a deck of cards and keep flashing them in front of you if you can find the cards.” I didn’t know how this was going to be but I did happen to get a hold of a deck of cards and flash them in front of my eyes for quite a few hours and my eyesight came back to well, more or less what it is now and I can look at you above your head and talk to you and I can see your face clearer when I’m up but I hate talking to you up like that, you know, or talk to you on the side and I can see your face but looking at you right now I can tell that you got glasses and so forth on but at times I couldn’t