With tax time lurking around the corner, you can't help but think how much money has been spent on medical bills and exemptions you are entitled to claim. I'm wondering about the blindness exemption if you are, or can be considered legally blind.

Then you wonder, while we have suffered brain damage, are paralyzed with limited use of hands and limbs, why couldn't it be considered like a person who lost a finger, a hand or an eye, be in the same catagory. If you have the insurance, they pay for those losses when you file your claim.

After all, we have lost a portion(s) of our 5 senses, therefore mentally disable without control of certain functions of our bodies. In some cases, we are below the functional ability of some 3 or 4 year olds. To top it all off, we must pay for caregiving, long term care facilities and nursing homes.

In my case, my wife had to quit her employment to care of me. That's two lost of incomes. Just seems to me there should be some sort of exemption to claim on your tax return when things of this nature happens to tax paying citizens.

One day these facts should be considered and exemptions granted like legal blindness or loss of limbs. There are many service members back from Iraq with limbs lost.