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Personal Narrative: When I Was In The Third Grade

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My most difficult situation was when we found out about my eyes when I was in the third grade. It all started when I was having trouble seeing the text books, the stuff on the boards, and my grades started to go down because of me losing my vision. When you are in the third grade and you are eight or nine years old, it’s hard to accept the fact you won’t be the same as your friends and that you can’t do the things you want.
I was sitting in class one day, and the nurse at the time was Nurse Arnold; she was doing the vision screening where you look at the white picture with the big E. It was my turn to get my vision checked by Nurse Arnold; she had me stand on the black piece of tape in her office which is a good bit a way. At the time I could see more than what I can see now I was …show more content…

While me and my mom were waiting on Dr. Amanda to come back with the test and to tell us what she had seen from the scans of my eyes, my mom and I were talking. My mom asked me,” Tay, honey what can you not see?” I told my mom what I couldn’t and could see. I finally came out and told her I have been having trouble seeing to read, seeing the stuff on the board at school, and watching Tv. My mom started asking me questions like “how long has this been going on” or “why ain’t you told me before now?” I looked at her and said, “Because, Momma, I’m scared. You know I love to read that’s all I do, and I’m afraid I can’t read anymore, I’m afraid I’ll go blind and can’t do anything that I like. And that I won’t have any friends anymore.” Dr. Amanda came back and said, “We are sending you to UVA in Charlottesville to have more test done, they are more enhanced and they hadthe technology that we do not have in Wytheville.” A few weeks later my eye doc called Momma and told Momma that I had a disease in my eyes called Stargardts and that they weren’t sure what it was so, they set up an appointment up at

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