[nabs-l] Introducing Myself:

[Mikayla Gephart]

Have you ever been to a state convention? It is not as big as national, but still good

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> On Jun 24, 2014, at 3:45 PM, Carol Hummel via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> For God so loved the world, that he gave his ever begotten Son, that
> whosoever, believeth in him shall not perish, but have ever lasting
> Life. John 3:16 Carol Ann Hummel
> Hi, My name is Carol Ann Weeks. I am 24 years old. I am totally blind
> but I haven't been that way all my life. I was in a bad car accident
> when I was 7 years old on December 7th 1997. According to my family
> the vehicle rolled on my head five to six times. I died on them six
> times had a heart attack and a stroke. The whole left side of my face
> was broken and the optic nerve in my left eye was cut away. I survived
> somehow and I was visually impaired until I was sixteen. While sitting
> in my Biology class one day I lost my sight completely and I thought
> it was just because my teacher wouldn't let me go get my medicine for
> my eye that was in August of 2006. My mom came to the school to take
> me to the doctor cause she was like oh no she can't be losing her
> sight. I cried the entire time. My eye doctor sent me to another
> doctor in Dothan Alabama and he performed two cornia transplants the
> first in September of 2006 and the second in October of 2006 but they
> both rejected that is when we all discovered that I hadn't just lost
> my sight by normal means I had had a second stroke due to no feeling
> near the right eye. I was out of school for several months after I
> lost my sight it took my will away. I thought there was no use cause
> see I would read up to two or three romance novels a day and now I
> couldn't so I was miserable. My parents had no idea what to do with
> me. I soon went back to school in FSDB , I wasn't there for long
> though I couldn't with stand the distance. I was sixteen going on
> seventeen and scared because I wasn't able to see anything. When I got
> out of FSDB my parents put me back in public school at Taylor County
> High School. That is some place I new really well I grew up there from
> when I was T13 years old. It was nice to be back home around my
> friends and people I knew. Then in December of 2008 we moved to South
> Carolina. That is where I currently live. I attended Senica High
> School. I was in and out of the hospital in 2009 the year I graduated
> but I got a District Certificate and I am currently working on my High
> School Diploma through Hadley. I believe it is all God that has gotten
> me this far and I hope and pray he can get me much farther in life. I
> have never been to a NFB convention but I am trying to figure out away
> to be able to attend next years.
> Fill free to contact me by email: angelic.sweetpea90 at gmail.com
> Skype: southern.bell90
> or Facebook: angelic.sweetpea90 at gmail.com    
> thanks II hope to hear from yall soon.
> God Bless,
> Carol Ann Weeks
> 
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