OBSIDIAN,
Got to agree with you 100%, after my Agent Orange Heart Attack it was slow going for me for a while, the O Gauge Trains kept my mind headed down the right direction, putting my engineering skills back to use in a constructive manner.
Over come your problems with some good hearing aids and serious modern glasses. O Gauge Trains are great modern therapy. The OGR helped me also during that time, interfacing with the men here helped a lot. Never really liked or had time for computers till I joined the OGR. I participate a lot now, I make the time. Tin Plate Trains and the OGR keep my mind set young, hope your Trains and OGR do the same for you.
PCRR/Dave