My Luck

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[Yunick13]

 

[Mark Wainwright]

I have high praise for anyone who deals effectively with such issues in life. Our daughter has Usher Syndrome, which is a hereditary syndrome that is marked by some degree of neurological hearing loss combined with loss of peripheral vision. Thankfully, her case is somewhat mitigated in that her vision has only very slowly deteriorated over the years. As a result, she is still able to drive. Her hearing is adequately corrected with hearing aids. She has done remarkably well for herself. I have to say her learning to self-advocate for herself is a direct result of the tenacious attention that my wife demanded at every step of the way in her developmental years. She's almost 40 now.

That's great and kudo's to you both for standing behind her.
My daughter is now 51.
When people found out she was learning to drive at 16 they were having a fit.
Saying she's deaf and won't hear the traffic coming.
She is more aware of what's going on around her than people without a disability.
When you lose 1 sense your other ones take over. The body is a wonderful machine so take care of it.
We felt sick when we were told Jen was deaf. When we took her to Toronto Sick Kids Hospital
at 2.5 years old for testing you see these other kids running around and of course some in wheelchairs or crutches smiling and laughing and you think why are we so upset when these kids have quite a challenge ahead of them.
Yeah we picked up and moved 80 miles away so she could go to the Deaf school and I took a big drop in pay but it paid off in spades. We now live back here in town but she still lives there with a house and her husband and two boys.

 

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