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My Blindy Girl- a Mother's Journey through Achromatopsia, tells a mother's story. What lengths will a mother go for her child when faced with a daughter's rare visual disability? This book tells the story of that ordinary mother living through difficult circumstances with surprising and extraordinary results. The book comes in regular, large print, and audio editions.BOOK SUMMARY:When Katy was born, her eyes jiggled, bounced, crossed, and squinted. Doctors confirmed she was visually impaired and color blind. Worse, her IQ tests at half that of normal babies. At first devastated, her mother soon grew obsessed with finding the cause and possibly cure. Set in the desert steppe of the Columbia River Valley in Washington State, My Blindy Girl braids a child's challenges, her mom's determination, and Gods grace into hope. It is a heart-warming, life-changing book, one youll not forget.Author Ellen Tomaszewski created and organized the first ever convention for people with achromatopsia in 2008. The 2009 convention is in Chicago August 13 and 14. You can read more about her on her website, www.ellentomaszewski, the Book Blues, or Catholictv website. She is also facilitating a city celebration of literary art set for October in her community called Rivers of ink - Readers and Writers Connect. Ms. Tomaszewski has written several other books. Her works include Taking the Exercises to the World, a manual for group meetings of the Spiritual Exercises in Everyday Life, Group Supervision Handbook, and a three-book series for the Preparation Days Retreat, a five-week retreat based on the first part of the Spiritual Exercises in Everyday Life. ... Read more

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In March 2001, the National Institutes of Health issued the following warning: "The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading."Furthermore, because of the rapid increase in Internet-based information, many hours can be wasted searching, selecting, and printing.This book was created for medical professionals, students, and members of the general public who want to conduct medical research using the most advanced tools available and spending the least amount of time doing so. ... Read more

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"My Blindy Girl is a moving, informative, and--in the best and deepest meaning of the word--inspiring true story. It's an account of courage, faith, and persistent hope. It's the kind of book you will want to read again and share with your friends because it's a book you will love - Mitch & Kathy Finley, authors of What Faith is Not and The Liturgy of Motherhood and many others ... Read more

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Tremendously Inspriational
My Blindy Girl, the memoir of a mother raising a daughter with visual impairment (Achromatopsia) is the true life story of Ellen Tomaszewski and her daughter Katy.The book is a love story, sharing a mother's love for her daughter, as well as her love for the faith that sees her through extraordinary trials and challenges.The author's years as a Spiritual Director shine through in her writing.Reading this book and interviewing its author were a tremendous pleasure and greatly inspired me in my own journey as a mother and spiritual seeker. ... Read more

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Baby Katy's eyes jiggle, bounce, cross, and squint, and doctors confirm she's visually impaired, color blind, and mentally delayed. At first devastated, her mother, author Ellen Tomaszewski, grew obsessed withfinding the cause and possibly cure for her daughter's symptoms. This tells the story of one mother's quest for understanding, how a below-average child and her ordinary mother worked through difficult circumstances to achieve extraordinary results.

The author spent almost ten years searching for a diagnosis. Here’s what she learned from the search:
- Love reveals how, if I’m listening to God, all things work together for good. (I’m talking about other-centered agape love, not the sappy, romantic, pop-ballad, I-can’t-live-without-you kind.)
- Discernment is simple, but it isn’t easy. Only with prayer and regular listening to the silence, which seems counter to my instincts, can I locate God’s will in the middle of life’s muddle.
-I can’t assume that intelligence, mine or anybody else’s, is static. Intelligence can increase and grow, even multiply if fed properly.
-Raising a child takes vigilance. A parent must not become complacent. Parenting is similar to invention: it takes 1% knowledge and 99 % perseverance.
-“Experts,” even seasoned ones, often don’t know as much as a parent.
-Impairment doesn’t have to mean less opportunity. Sometimes it generates opportunity.
When a doctor in Berkley, California, diagnosed Katy’s visual condition and fitted her with red lenses, it changed all of our lives. For the first time, Katy could see outside in daylight. Although there was no cure for her condition, just having a name for it settled my soul. And she grew more optimistic. Unlike the cliché of rose-colored glasses, Katy’s lenses didn’t bathe our world in impractical Pollyanna-like optimism, though. Instead, they exposed the world as it truly was: filled with challenge, hardship, pain, and heartache, mixed tenderly with love, gratitude, and joy. They revealed real life – and God’s continual care for us through it. I couldn’t ask for more than that.

Set in the desert steppe of the Columbia River Valley in Washington State, My Blindy Girl braids a child's challenges, her mom's determination, and God’s grace into a tale of hope. It is a heart-warming, life-changing book, one you’ll not forget.
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Chapters: Color Blindness, Alice Walker, Macular Degeneration, Achromatopsia, Akinetopsia, Low Vision, Amblyopia, Photophobia, Diplopia, Nyctalopia, Scotoma, Scintillating Scotoma, Bitemporal Hemianopsia, Hemeralopia, Binasal Hemianopsia, Asthenopia, Eyeborg. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 127. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Color blindness or color vision deficiency is the inability to perceive differences between some of the colors that others can distinguish. It is most often of genetic nature, but may also occur because of eye, nerve, or brain damage, or exposure to certain chemicals. The English chemist John Dalton published the first scientific paper on the subject in 1798, "Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours", after the realization of his own color blindness. Because of Dalton's work, the condition was often called daltonism, although this term is now used for a type of color blindness called deuteranopia. Color blindness is usually classed as a mild disability, however, in certain situations color blind individuals have an advantage over those with normal color vision. There are some studies which conclude that color blind individuals are better at penetrating certain color camouflages and it has been suggested that this may be the evolutionary explanation for the surprisingly high frequency of congenital red-green color blindness. The average human retina contains two kinds of light cells: the rod cells (active in low light) and the cone cells (active in normal daylight). Normally, there are three kinds of cones, each containing a different pigment, which are activated when the pigments absorb light. The technical names for these receptors are S-cones, M-cones, and L-cones, but they are also often referred to as blue cones, green cones, and red cones, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7397 ... Read more

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Achromatopsia (ACHM), is a medical syndrome that exhibitssymptoms relating to at least five separate individualdiseases. Although the term may refer to acquired disorderssuch as color agnosia and cerebral achromatopsia, ittypically refers to an autosomal recessive congenital colorvision disorder, the inability to perceive color AND toachieve satisfactory visual acuity at high light levels(typically exterior daylight). The syndrome is also presentin an incomplete form which is more properly defined asdyschromatopsia. The only estimate of its relativeoccurrence of 1:33,000 in the general population dates fromthe 1960s or earlier. There is some discussion as to whetherachromats can see color or not. As illustrated in The Islandof the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks, some achromats cannot seecolor. With 5 different genes currently known to causesimilar symptoms, it may be that some do see marginal levelsof color differentiation due to different genecharacteristics. ... Read more