06/12/2018
My sister and I really need ur help. The glasses we our trying to get cost $10,000 a piece. I know how expensive that is. And I'm sure ur thinking we r crazy for trying to raise this much money, but try and put ur selves in our shoes. At three years old your in preschool and u can't tell the colors.off the crayon cards ur supose to learn, or ur tripping or toys at school. Then skip to 2nd grad where you sleep through class and try to learn on ur own because the teacher tells you I don't have time for you because I have other kids to deal with that need me more. 3rd grade finally figure out what's going on with my eyes and they throw me in special ed. Oops! At 12 my baby sister is 6and in kindergarten and the nurse calls our mom and says. Angi you need to have heather checked for the same thing Melinda has. Round two we both have this rare diseas. Auto zonal recessive hereditary optic atrophy. It never stops progressing. It always gets worse and these glasses are a mirical because so far this is the only equipment they have as far as glasses we can use that work. So please help us if u can. And by the way now we are 29 and 23.
At the age on four we noticed Melinda was having trouble seeing things after several drs, several trips to St Louis Childrenโs Hospital at the age of 8 we had a diagnosis of Auto-Somal Recessive Hereditary Optic Atrophy. Our other three children were cleared of the disease. Unfortunately when H...