(This is partly for practice and partly because I wanted to write my own)

When Lucky's parents found out that they were expecting a child. they didn't know how special and different she was going to be.
Her mother's name was Joanne. Her father's Yves. When they found out that their child wich was later determined to be a girl would have multiple anomalies. The doctors had more unanswered questions than they wanted to admit. They didn't know if the girl would be a vegetable, born-dead or perfectly normal.

They didn't really have to wait long. In order to survive their daughter had to be born one month premature. They decided to give her the name of the first female pilot. Because she was special. She was born with Hydrocephaly also known as water on the brain. She would have many difficulties learning, they said,. Wich was partially true. Her speech center was affected , so was her short-term memory and thinking abilities. (Math) She had to spend the first two weeks of her life in ICU (Intensive Care Unit) . She had a surgery to place a shunt in a brain (three plastic piecess inserted in the body to pump excess fluid out of the brain) It consists of three parts. A thin tube inserted in the brain itself, near the ventricles in my case, a valve wich is attached to the thin tube and the skull. You need to have a hole made in your skull to insert it. And a long tube wich led from the valve to her stomach.

A few months later she got gravely sick. The doctors wouldn't listen to her mom who said that her shunt was broken. They said it was the stomach flu, until during the night at midnight precisely. She turned blue and practically died in her mother's arms. The doctors brough ther back to life, scanned her, and realised that her mother was right.

Joanne got really mad and ever since then her speech imapirment switched to a visual impairment (the doctors had to put me in a coma and told my parents that i wouldn't be the same)

For the next four years of her life she would be admitted to the hospital more than 250 times. During that time she would be administered anti-seizure medication wich made her agressiva and at 16 months she finally learned to walk by wich time she had a younger brother.

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BRING IT ON!!!!!!!

She's now physically stronger than when she was at the beginning of last year. She is teased at school , and people poke her in the back and ask her questions.

She met a 23-year-old teacher named Cara Walker. She is her Orientation and Mobility teacher. She teaches techniques and the proper ways to use a white cane.  She thinks they have developped a silent frinedship, like with ther math teacher she had in ninth grade.

Right now she is stronger than all the girls in her gym class and is getting stronger every day. The teachers make life much harder because they are unfair with her. They expect more than she can give them. she's looking forward to some salsa and merengue lessons which will be taught by a traditional spnish instructor. it will be taught in a club in the city's downtown area. The club is called Caliente.

She is alos looking forward to another O&M lesson this Tuesday. She hopes they will go outside again because it is litterally 100 degrees in the school in the winter. It is twice as bad in the summer because her ghetto school has low-grade computers, no air-conditioning and only certain teachers enforce the use of the french lanfuage in the hallways.

Lucky hopes life will get better from here.
 
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TRP/LCPL Luckystar/1SQD/2PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/ Tadath/VEAVE

-Paladin-
To Embrace the Darkness is to bring about the Light

lucky is a little frustrated by people still, her parents are pretty much doing decisions for her even though she doesn't want it to be that way. Her brother and sister aren't quite fair to her, and she found out at the last minute that her mother was taking control  of her disability pension. HER money!

On top of that, her mother won't lisen to her when she says she needs a longer cane. Her mother is taking over her life, she doesn't know how dangerous having a too-short cane is. She has already unintentionally tripped herself with it.

She plans to convince someone in her family that her cane is in fact 8 to 10 inches too short. if her mother won't listen to her, someone will have to.

lucky is going to do coop at Jules-Leger (french school for the deaf/blind) she wishes she could switch schools and study there for her last year of HS.

The people over there respect her, she went there yesterday for a meeting and she knows she woud be respected.

At home, people treat her quite unfairly and she feels lonely. Everyone is concentrating on making her brother happy, so he wouldn't get mad at them. But what about her? Her needs seem to come in last.

She wonders if she'll have to stay unhappy for long.