Life has thrown us some curves
Last year (2009) at this time we were celebrating our grandaughter Rebecca's graduation from high school. So proud to see her passing another milestone in her life and planning to go off to college at Bennington College in Vermont in the Fall. Well, she did go off to college and didn't seem to be enjoying it as much as she had hoped. She wasn't feeling well for a few weeks and told her mother (my duaghter Julianne) that she was having some vision problems, probably caused by all the computer work in animation class etc. So Julianne told her to go see the nurse. She did and was sent to an Opthalmologist (sp?). That's when the curve ball started our way. The doctor found her optic nerves were swollen and recommended that she have an MRI. November 5th: Julianne and Rebecca's Dad flew up to Bennington to be with Rebecca while she had the MRI. The child has never been sick, so the thought of going into a strange hospital so far from home was naturally very disconc...