It's those foolish things that make me LOL...seriously
Recently I completed a master degree - big whoop right? Well...yeah...for someone like me it is and here is why: In elementary school, I was always a grade level behind and even then had poor grades. For some reason, the system did not catch up with me and I was shuffled along, like a hurt lamb in the overpowering herd that somehow managed, somehow, someway, to reach her destination. To make going to school even worse, both my hearing and eyesight were moderately impaired...once again, somehow, someway, this was overlooked for several years. I was evaluated at our local Deaf and Blind School but my hearing loss was not found to be at a level which required aids. As an adult, I still question the validity of those tests. A few years later, to my surprise, my eyesight was monitored and I was given corrective lenses (or glasses as we refer to them in WV), and somehow, someway, fixed the hearing problem too! It was the th...