Found: Autobiography of partially blind author with glass eye and seeing eye dog

I read this book in 7th grade, so around '93-'94. The book is by a well known author (I think Judy Blume but I'm not positive) and details how she got a seeing eye dog, and had to retrain him because he ran off with her while chasing a cat. She eventually removed her lazy eye and got a glass eye instead. And there was an amazing scene where she is getting help organizing her house and she's putting mugs away and asks her helper how this is going so well, and her helper responds that she waits until puts out her hand and puts the mug into her outstretched hand.

Author is definitely female.

I can almost definitely say it's not Judy Blume as she had no visual impairment (at least none that she disclosed publicly.) Maybe Taking Hold: My Journey Into Blindness? Or Curved Horizon?

Jean Little? She wrote two autobiographies.
Little by Little: a writer's education and Stars come out within.

Here is a relevant list.

Blind/vision impaired author + characters -- children's/YA nonfiction
https://www.librarything.com/list/9461/all/Blind%25252Fvision-impaired-author-%2...

Jean Little had an eye removed if I recall correctly. The reason for removal would be a very painful eye and nothing else works to ease that pain.

It's definitely Stars Come Out Within. I browsed through it on archive.org and it has the eye removal, the anecdote about the friend waiting until she stretches out her hand for her tea, and a guide dog named Zephyr who needs retraining.

Yes thought so. I need to reread.

>3 bookel: I think you're right, thank you!