Well, recently a longtime friend of mine expressed interest in trying her hand at writing so I offered to let her post here from time to time so let's all welcome Liverfire! (this is where you clap and yell)...
Here's her introduction:
I grew up on a dairy farm in ND (insert jokes here) and had a normal childhood. At some point, we found that I was having vision problems that only became worse as I got older. It took a few years for the doctors to figure out what I had. It has a German name but it is considered the juvenile form of Macular Degeneration. My vision became worse until it plateaued sometime in my adolescence.
Since my official diagnosis at age ten, I proceeded to spend the next fifteen years or so pretending that I was “normal” like everyone else. 'Pretending' as in someone saying “did you see that?” and me replying "yes". That happened a lot. I actually didn’t get myself in to too many bad situations. I never fell off any cliffs or got run over, stuff like that. I became really good at guessing what things I couldn’t see looked like or making myself have a good memory so I could do better on tests… I can delve in to that kind of stuff later.
It took me a few years after high school to figure out what I wanted to do with my “life”. But when I finally did, with much kicking and screaming, I became a Practitioner of Chinese Medical Massage. I met my current boyfriend and we moved in together. I had lived in the country my whole life and always did fine walking around. But after living in town I realized something was missing. I had a couple of scares with cars and their crazy drivers. I met a, now great friend, wonderful person who was using a guide dog. She explained the whole process to me and I just knew I had to get one. So in a very short amount of time I received my guide, Graphite.
More stories of him to come in the near future.
Well this is where Liverfire's story begins...Any stories from her will be noted in the headline. Enjoy!
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