[nabs-l] Introducing Myself:

[RJ Sandefur]

Carol is on skype you guys. RJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bridget Walker via nabs-l" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
To: "Carol Hummel" <angelic.sweetpea90 at gmail.com>; "National Association of 
Blind Students mailing list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Introducing Myself:


> Hi Carol Ann
> Welcome to the list.
> I am a full time college student  turning 21 in a few weeks.
> I too have gone through the horrors of vision loss in high school.
> I'm glad to know you pulled through and are completing courses through 
> Hadley.
> Power to you.
> I look toward to your contributions to the list.
> Bridget
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Jun 24, 26 Heisei, at 3:45 PM, Carol Hummel via nabs-l 
>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> -- 
>> 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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