Meet Sammy

As everyone said, your blog may take an unexpected turn. I was talking to my boyfriend's mother about my blog and describing to her what I had to do. She mentioned to me that several family members are a part of a family with persons with disabilities. She got me in touch with them and it has been very interesting to say the least. The first person I got in touch with was her sister, Lish. Her sister has a very unique story regarding disability. Her husband's brother is developmentally delayed and also blind. He was born in November of 1953 prematurely. His mother smoked through all of her pregnancies. Then when he was born he was put in an incubator and there was a nurse who turned the oxygen levels very high on all of the babies in that room. All of them were damaged in some way to varying degrees. He has no retinas and has never been able to see. His mother took care of him all her life but recently passed away. Lish and her husband promised to take care of Sammy when she died. They recently moved in to his mother's house so as not to move Sammy away from a stable and familiar environment.  He also has OCD and some behavioral issues. Mentally, Sammy is only about 4 or 5 years old even though he is physically 58. He is fairly healthy and can pretty much take care of himself. He can dress himself, brush his teeth, bathe himself, feed himself, and shave. There are a lot of things he can do but a lot that he can't. he cannot read Braille although he did attend Royer Greaves School for the Blind when he was younger. He can't tie shoes so they only buy him ones with Velcro straps. I will be discussing more with Lish in the future about him in regards to vacations.