All about me!

Hi Everyone and anyone who read’s this,For the purposes of this first post, let’s pretend that even people who know me have just stumbled across this blog in a search engion, and haven’t a clue who i am, for that reason i will be telling you a good bit about myself in this first post.My name is kerie, i’m 22 and i live in dublin Ireland, there are 5 in my family, my two parents, and a younger sister she’s 19, and a younger brother, he’s 12. I’ve lived in this house pretty much since I can remember. I was born in Majorca, spain, in march of 1987, i was 3 months premature, this resulted in me getting two much oxygen in an incubator, I subsequently developed an eye condition called ROP or, detached retinopathy of prematurity. This means that my retina’s detached as a result of my prematurity, and i lost my sight at 8 months. After this when i was 2, (as far as i remember anyway) I was taken to America on and off for about 2 years, for multiple operations, in which attempts were made to save my sight, but unsuccessful ones, and so it was that i was to experience life as a blind person.I started school when i was 4, i atended a school for the blind till i was 14, after which, due to closure of this particular school, i was mainstreamed, meaning i atended for the last 4 years, a school where there were sighted pupils, and i was the only blind person. This did come with it’s share of problems, lack of books, and people, both teachers and pupils, not really knowing what to do around me, led to a not very pleasant school experience for me, i wasn’t really accepted socially, and teachers in their efforts to show other students that i wasn’t and would not receive preferential treatment, treated me worse, at least i feel, than they would have been if they did the same things i did, not doing homework etc.After i made it through school with all it’s chalenges, i then embarked on a rehabilitation course, in which, after having received no what is called mobility, meaning training in how to get from one place to another safely , i received a lot of this training on this course,and was then able to travel around the city centre here, using at the time, a white cane. After this course, i then decided to go to colege, where i undertook the study of holistic therapies, and received at the end, again after many problems, 2 diplomas from I.T.E.C. standing for the international therapy examinational council, in both holistic massage, and indian head massage. I then sat around for the next year or so, as there was and is, no work in this industry at present. During this time, I was also in the process of applying for a guidedog, and the waiting semed to take ages, and there were many struggles to get to the point i’m at now, which is that I’m going for training with a beautiful golden lab/retriever at the end of may. I’m also going back to college, to do what’s called a PLC or post leaving certificate course in music performance after which i hope to do my degree, and turn my love and passion for music into some sort of career.In this blog you will find posts about all aspects of life, in the next few weeks, details of how training with my guidedog is going,will be posted here, plus lots of other things, so stay tuned!till next time…