But Mr.Torres does not feel sorry for himself.“These are just little bumps you have to go over in your life,” he said.At 5 a.m.on a recent morning,we caught up with Mr.Torres at a subway stop in Brooklyn,New York,near where he lives in a thirdfloor apartment (with no elevator).He had been up since 3 a.m.,feeding his new dog,making coffee,getting ready.“When you're blind,it takes a little longer to do things,” he said.
Mr.Torres was beginning his twohour trip to his job developing film in the Xray department of the emergency room of the Bronx hospital.He would take the G train to Queens Plaza station to the R train,heading towards Manhattan.He would then ride the R train to 59th Street where he would walk upstairs to switch to the Number 6 train.At one point along the journey,he might chat with a stranger.At another,someone would pat his dog,calling him by name.People offered assistance,even seats.At 125th Street,Mr.Torres would transfer to the Number 4 train by crossing the platform.At 149th Street,he would go down to the Number 2.He would take that to East 180th Street where he nearly always has a long wait for his final train,to Pelham Parkway.Then he and his dog would walk 20 minutes to the hospital.
It was a hard job to come by.Before he got the job,Mr.Torres was determined to escape the workshop run by an organization dedicated to help people who can't see.He wanted a job developing Xray film,something that everyone must do in the dark.He had to handle the long trip,as well as the work.“Our philosophy here is that blind people can do just about anything except drive buses,” it was the thinking about disabled people at the Bronx hospital.“We find what a person can do rather than what he can't do,” said the hospital's director.
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