Hello my name is Rashonda Allen and I am a single mother of two children. I have a 16-year-old daughter And a eight year old son. They are both my world and I would do anything possible to be able to continue to see them grow into the awesome people I know they're going to be. We as a family have been going through quite a struggle but, through it all we still remain together. Just to give a backstory of my situation, I became pregnant by my ex-husband with my eight-year-old son in 2011. Before the pregnancy I was perfectly healthy I had my eyesight and everything within my body was functioning the way it should. One day, after finding out I was pregnant I began to have serious headaches that would leave me incapacitated for the day. Discontinued for weeks and no doctor could do anything for me because I was pregnant. The pain begin To become unbearable and I physically cannot take the pain any longer this is when the doctor that I was seen for my eyes and I was sent to a glaucoma specialist. The same day I went to the glaucoma specialist she performed a surgery to place tubes into my eyes which caused the excessive fluid that was building up behind my eyes to drain. This alleviated the headache immediately. The next day I had to go back to have the bandages removed and to check the placement of the tube to make sure everything was functioning correctly. Everything was perfectly fine and I was told that my eyesight will start to return shortly. As time went on my eyesight began to disappear more and more each day and no one had any answers as to why my sight had not returned. I gave birth ti my son but during the labor my eyesight gave away more and more and I never got to completely see him once he was born. A year after he was born my eyesight went away completely. Throughout the time I was losing my sight I went through countless surgeries to counteract the blindness I was experiencing.
In 2017 I was informed that my kidneys where losing their function and that I would have to use Dyalisis. The first year of dyalisis was a true struggle and in the end I just push through everyday in hopes that what Im going through can be corrected I thank you for taking the time to read my story, I hope you all have a blessed day.
