Deborah Commissaris:  

I dropped out of school to help my mom when she was injured at work, then married young , had a child and divorced after 7 years, moved to massachusetts after the birth of my 2nd child and lived there for 15 years while working for the treasury department,I traveled back and forth to Rochester once a month to visit with my mom until her death in 1996, in 2000 I transferred to Austin Texas for health reasons, it was getting harder to deal with the cold and snow of New England, little did I know the heat of Texas was not what I needed!!! In March of 2001 I married a fella from the Netherlands, we had met while working on a project and clicked , April and May of 2001 I had to have 2 surgeries back to back, a total hysterectomy and then gallbladder 2 weeks later, after the surgeries I had difficulty walking, then I lost my vision,February 14, 2002 tests showed I had Multiple Sclerosis, the heat was making me worse...Expand for more