LO71CH365
No. of colleagues booked | 8 |
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No. of bookings | 9 |
Hours booked | 51 hours |
Date joined this system | Jul 07, 2009 |
I'm 18 years old and if at this time three years ago you had told me I was going to end up blind by my 18th birthday I would have laughed at you.
I never expected to be blind and when I started to lose my vision I chose to ignore it. My family new something was wrong but they didn't know it was something this big.
I remember the day my mother found out I had lost half the vision in both my eyes. I was at school, having a vision assessment done on me. At the end of the assessment the teacher told me that I was allowed to go to the library and get on with my work. When my mother was called in for the results in about 30 minutes I anxiously awaited because I knew that she would tell me what was going on. When she came out there were tears streaming down her face, and she told me that we were leaving. I wasn't going to stay for the rest of the school day.
Over the past 2.5 years I have slowly continued to lose my vision. I wake up every morning, keep my eyes closed, hope that I can still see what I could yesterday, and then slowly open my eyes. When I still see the same I'm thankful, when it's worse I just cry. It hasn't been an easy journey, but with my mum's help I achieved a certain level of independence. She passed away 2 years ago and I turned to social care for extra help as I feel I am not completely secure in my skills, but I will improve till I won't need any help any more.
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