A Year in Lockdown, Billy Hendren

A year on, we're looking back at how the coronavirus outbreak affected the lives of those living with a visual impairment. The challenges, the little blessings and how we and the world around us adapted to the new normal of everyday life.

Connect Radio’s Toby Davey chats with Billy Hendren a young visually impaired adult from South Ayrshire about his year in lockdown, the highs, and lows for him.

Billy tells Toby that his year in lockdown has been 50/50 for him, the negatives have been not being able to attend Mass as a Roman Catholic and that he has not seen his support worker for almost 13 months.   

Billy is looking forward to being able to go to Mass and seeing his support worker again and he hopes that, as he terms them, Covidiots keep to the rules and as we come out of lockdown are aware of people like him who can’t wear masks due to underlying health conditions as Billy has a chronic lung condition which makes it impossible for him to wear a mask.

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