Refreshing My Memory
It has been three years or so since I had my eye and heart surgeries. A lot has happened in those four years, and my life direction has changed. When I was in elementary and high school, before I had my eye and heart surgeries and before I even knew I had Marfan’s Syndrome, I noticed that I easily got tired playing with my cousins and in some of my activities at school. I remember my struggles in high school military training – although I accomplished the training, sometimes I felt like I was climbing Mount Everest! My vision was also bad, but, because we lived in the countryside and had very little medical treatment available, I just had second-hand glasses. Then I went to the city for college, and during my first year we discovered I had Marfan’s. My eyesight had became so bad that my aunt and uncle asked me to find the best eye doctor available and get prescription glasses. We were all startled and confused when the eye doctor said I had “dislocated lenses,” but my uncle went