[nabs-l] Introducing Myself:

Tue Jun 24 21:36:21 UTC 2014

Welcome aboard. :)
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On Jun 24, 2014, at 4:13 PM, sami osborne via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> 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
> 
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