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    Seeing Clearly | Alzheimer’s in the First Person | Barbara Taylor Vaughan

    By Barbara Taylor Vaughan | on March 11, 2012
    Posted in: Alzheimer's In The First Person, Blog

    Well, GOD has been answering lots of my prayers lately. You know that saying, “Be careful for what you pray for?”

    Missy took me back to the doctor this morning, they told her I am blind in one eye, and it can not be corrected. It is some type of eye degeneration or such, I cant remember exactly. I just laughed to myself and thought, “Thank you GOD, thank you for making me blind in one eye.” I think you are probably reading this and thinking, “Well, it’s finally happened, [she's having] an Alzheimer’s day.”

    Well, let me tell you a little story. About a year ago Missy woke up one morning and could not see out of one eye, she was blind. She had to go to the emergencey room. It was a condition caused by MS. The doctors said her optic nerve or something was damaged by the MS and her sight might not return. She came home that night so upset, but laughed at my jokes of getting her different colored eye patches.

    I prayed to GOD, “Please, please, I am an old woman. I have had a wonderful wonderful life. I am not questioning you GOD, but just asking you to change your mind, take my eye. Read more…