[nabs-l] Introducing Myself:

[sami osborne]

Hi Carrol,

Nice intro and welcome to the list!

I hope that you will like and feel comfortable with our 
discussions here after your rather tragic teenage life.  This is 
what this sort of community is for.  We are all here to discuss 
our feelings and emotions among our friends and make one another 
feel better.

I'm sorry to here that you suffered a car accident that made you 
loose your vision.
That must have been tough for you and your family to adjust to.

How do you feel now about yourself after about 8 years of being 
blind?

To introduce myself to you, I am currently 16 and in high school 
as well.


I hope to go to college and become a language interpreter or 
teacher.  (I speak 3 languages: English, French and Spanish).  My 
mom is French, and I used to take Spanish at school.

Don't know if you're interested in languages just wanted to point 
this out since you are a new member and you probably want to know 
about the rest of us here on list.

Do you have any hopes for your future after you graduate from 
High school?

Welcome again to the list, and hope you enjoy!

Yours,

Sami.
  ----- Original Message -----
From: Carol Hummel via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:45:55 -0400
Subject: [nabs-l] Introducing Myself:

--
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

_______________________________________________
nabs-l mailing list
nabs-l at nfbnet.org
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nabs-l_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info 
for nabs-l:
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nabs-l_nfbnet.org/ligne14%40ver
izon.net