I returned to work this week, which is both hard and nice. It's nice to get back to my routine and back to teaching... it's hard to be away from my little Hunter.
The best part of being back so far was when one of my students told me she made me a name plate for my office. She said that every teacher in the school had their name on their office door, but my name was missing. So she created a name badge for my office.
So, I've been doing a lot of posts this week related to mothers and motherhood, which are appropriate leading up to Mother's Day.
Well, this post I'm really excited about because it combines the subjects of Mothers with the subject of blindness and visual impairments, which is related to my career. I work with students with blindness, who, thankfully, are not mothers yet... but this video is an amazing combination of two of my favorite subjects.
God bless this Doctor for thinking outside the box and doing all that he could to give this woman the same experience as every mother he sees.
Many of you know that I work with students who are blind and visually impaired.
There are very rewarding parts of my job, and very challenging parts of my job.
Thus far, the most challenging part of my job has been working with a student who is slowing losing his vision... he doesn't exactly need my services today, but I have to try to prepare him to adjust to the idea that someday he might need my services -- and by that time he might be out of school, and I won't be there.
There are several eye diseases that slowly rob people of their sight, but last night on NBC Nightly News, they announced a tremendous breakthrough for people with one specific eye disease, Retinitis Pigmentosa.
I have a few students with this disease and know several adults who have lost, or are losing their vision to this disease. The below news story is an answer to prayer and the biggest breakthrough people with Retinitis Pigmentosa have ever seen.
Wouldn't it be amazing if, in time, eventually, I had to find a new job because people's vision had been restored through the miracle of science and technology? Please, Lord, let it be!
