When Brandie Kubel, our CareersPLUS Coordinator and Independent Living Skills Instructor, arrived in Washington D.C. last month, it had been 30 years since she had last visited the capitol city with her roommate at age 21 – just one week before...
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When Norma Cibrian of Live Oak began losing her vision at age 39, she was in a hospital bed recovering from gastroparesis, a condition caused by diabetes that had resulted in throwing up multiple times a day for more than a year. Her weight had...
Learn moreGive Seniors with Vision Loss Independence and Community Losing vision can feel lonely and scary. But in our senior retreats, people with vision loss find connection and community as they come together to learn independent living skills from...
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Norman McDaniel changed jobs, joined a demanding company, was preparing to get married and was working to move his mother – all within 60 days. The pressure was too much for his eyes. Having been diagnosed with glaucoma three years earlier...
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Terri Walsh was a 43-year-old physical therapist in Pleasanton with an active life playing tennis and managing her four teenage kids when her world changed in 2008. After a radial keratotomy years before, she underwent a corneal transplant that...
Learn moreBrandie Kubel has been described as “stubborn” almost from the moment she was born five months premature, weighing just 1 pound and five ounces with little hope for survival. “My parents were told not to get attached to me or even name me,”...
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