[nabs-l] Introducing Myself:

Tue Jun 24 22:04:55 UTC 2014

Thank You all for the warm welcome. I appreciate it. I am pretty sure
some of you are curious about what my plans are after high school. I
plan on taking some online Bible Courses. I also plan on going to
school and learning about music. I was happy to share with you about
my testimony. If yall would like to message me on Skype. yall can feel
free to but I am letting you all know that I do have a bad internet
connection. So I can't talk during the day. here is my Skype name:
southern.bell90
Carol Ann Weeks

On 6/24/14, Matthew Dierckens via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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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-- 
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