[nfb-db] inspirational DB people past or present

[RJ Sandefur]

Janice, Amanda my girlfriend is an inspiration to me. In 99, Amanda had to 
have a brain tumer removed, and in so doing, she lost some of her memory. 
She also lost all of the sight in her right eye, and her CP has goten worse 
to the point her mother has to care for her. I have a sighted deaf friend 
who helps me help her with her vocabulary, and with each passing day, she 
gets better. She has a sorenson video phone, and we were talking on it tday, 
and she was telling me about her operation. People tell me I need to find 
someone else if I wanted to be happy, that Amanda would never be able to 
have children of her own, but that doesn't mater to me. We saperated for a 
time, because I told her I wasn't hapy, because at the time, comunication 
was really bad. However, today on our phone call, I told her I was sorry and 
that I was not shure if she still loved me, and she said "RJ, I still love 
you." RJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janice Toothman" <janice.toothman at verizon.net>
To: "NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List" <nfb-db at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:54 PM
Subject: [nfb-db] inspirational DB people past or present


>I was thinking about the first DB person I knew of was Helen Keller. I had 
>read her autobiography as a child. I had taught myself the manual alphabet 
>and memorized the Braille alphabet from a Braille alphabet card even though 
>I didn't know how to produces the Braille. I was inspired by her for 
>several reasons. She was a woman living in a time when most women go to 
>college let alone earn a degree. She did. She meet world leaders and 
>traveled internationally. If we think of the problems associated with 
>travel today just think late 1900 century and early 2000 century. She did 
>these things as a deaf-blind woman as a result of contracting rubella.
> I still admire her courage.
> Does anyone else have a DB person that has inspired or mentored them past 
> or present that they would be willing to share with the list?
> Janice
>
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