hello. I am a visually impaired emergency room veterinarian. Please feel free to DM me. I've got a lot of thoughts about this. Working in medicine with a visual impairment is not easy. It's doable. But it's a scary abelist world out there and you need to know what you're getting into.

Hi. I have heard of blind people working as occupational therapists. You might also find working as a dietitian interesting.

I worked in emergency management prior to my vision loss. I don’t know if you could be a first responder with visual impairments. First, you need to be able to drive, most likely a larger vehicle, at high speeds. You would need the visual acuity to see at a distance and in various conditions like low light. If you responded to a commercial vehicle accident, for example, you’d want to read any placards at a distance to size-up scene safety. Maybe a clinical setting would be better for your level of vision, or perhaps you could look into being a public safety telecommunicator.

I did EMS dispatching and was an incident commander for the local search and rescue (volunteer) for a while and knew someone who was totally blind who was a dispatcher for the state police.

There are support roles you could certainly do.

If your interests lie more in nursing, that seems pretty doable, depending on the type/environment you want to work in.

Have you thought about teaching? I have a friend who's a paraplegic who's an instructor at the state fire school.

EMT and firefighter jobs don’t test for color blindness but some hospitals do. I know that if you are colorblind you can wear special red contact lens that looks creepy. The thing about EMT and firefighter jobs is that if you tell your doctor that you have these eye conditions and you have to bring in a form from your doctor for the job that is how they will find out. Please keep in mind that you have to have a good peripheral vision to drive those vehicles. Nursing also pays 2x what these jobs pay. You may want to consider a lab job because a lot of times you are just collecting specimens. Parts of your duties include putting certain specimens in centrifuges and using your right eye to identify things like flu test or strep test sample results.