Brave and strong

[Carol]

Meet New Yorker Rebecca Alexander, 30.

She's a practicing psychotherapist.

She teaches 15 spin classes per week.

She loves going out to night clubs.

When asked what it is like to be losing her sight and hearing, she'd rather tell you about how great her friends are.

Stop for a second -- think about that! Doctors have told my sister she will likely go completely blind and deaf within the next 10 years. As my sister describes it, "It's like I am slowly being taken from the world around me -- like the end of an old Warner Brothers cartoon on TV where the picture becomes an increasingly smaller hole until it finally fades to black."

Quite a story, and there is more on the video embedded in the link below:


http://allday.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/19/1844254.aspx