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“Paving the road for those coming behind me!”
About Ron Worley
Around 1970, when I was approximately four years of age, I experienced a rusty nail accident. My brother and I were playing army with a coffee can of rusty nails that we retrieved from a house under construction next door. We were throwing them back and forth over the bed as if they were missiles. I looked up at the right or wrong time, however you wish to look at it, and I was hit by a nail that my brother had just tossed. The nail punctured my right eye, which led to complete loss of vision in that eye within a few months. Over the next three years or so, secondary glaucoma, by way of a condition called “sympathetic ophthalmia,” caused a gradual decrease of vision in my left eye. It was also removed in 2004. So, I learned how to cope with life through most of my formative years as a totally blind person.
My first major achievement was graduating from high school. Afterwards, I used the best of six years to complete two bachelor’s degrees from Tennessee Temple University. In 1991, I went on to complete a master’s degree at Western Michigan University. In 1993, I accepted a job working for Alabama’s Department of Rehabilitation Services, where I worked for two years. In January 1996, I accepted a position at the Blind Rehabilitation Center at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Augusta, Georgia. I then retired in 2017 after 22 years of service. Currently, I stay busy by teaching visually impaired users of accessible computers and portable devices. I serve on six blindness-related committees within Georgia.
On December 17, 1988, Azalea Ann Allison solidified my proposal of marriage by answering “yes,” which began thirty-seven exciting years and going strong. At the time of this writing, we have five strapping boys, who are all married and have blessed us with five daughters-in-law and twelve dearest grandchildren.
I have gathered the following information from more than fifty years as a totally blind person, where I have learned to function in many structured and unstructured environments indoors and out. I received professional orientation training from third grade until ninth grade. I have taken what I have learned and have traveled independently across our country from Buxton, Maine, to San Diego, California, and from Flint, Michigan, to St. Petersburg, Florida. I have traveled by Greyhound Bus, commercial airlines, subways in major cities, Amtrak trains, airport shuttles, personal cabs, and many trips with Uber independently.